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Image Grammar
Using Grammatical Structures to Teach Writing
Harry R. Noden, Hudson Middle School, Ohio

Boynton/Cook / ISBN 0-86709-466-4 / 978-0-86709-466-4 / 1999 / 224 pp / paperback
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    This is the most exciting resource for teaching writing and grammar that I've seen in years! . . . Certain to become a classic in the field.
    --Constance Weaver, Author of Teaching Grammar in Context
    Image Grammar is an exciting resource that is both inspirational and immensely practical for all teachers who know the importance of integrating grammar and writing.
    --English Journal
    This is the most exciting resource for teaching writing and grammar that I've seen in years! . . . Certain to become a classic in the field.
    —Constance Weaver, Author of Teaching Grammar in Context
    Image Grammar is an exciting resource that is both inspirational and immensely practical for all teachers who know the importance of integrating grammar and writing.
    —English Journal

For decades, scholars have urged teachers to integrate grammar and writing, yet few have provided teachers with enough strategies and materials to do so. With this ground-breaking book, Harry Noden meets this need in a unique way.

Image Grammar is based on the premise that a writer is much like an artist who "paints" images, using grammatical structures as tools. In presenting this approach, Noden divides chapters into two sections: concepts and strategies. The concepts illustrate how professional writers have used "image grammar" to develop their art; while the strategies provide teachers with classroom-tested lessons to help students discover what Joan Didion calls the "infinite power of grammar."

This book comes with a companion CD containing more than sixty complete lesson strategies and one hundred illustrative examples—all of which are ready for use at the push of a button. The CD works with any Web browser, contains dozens of images to stimulate student writing, and features more than eighty links to thousands of additional images.

Above all, this is both a practical and time-saving book. Every concept described can be put to immediate use, saving teachers countless hours of preparation.

Table of Contents

    Contents:
    1.
    The Writer as Artist: Basic Brush Strokes
    2. The Artist's Eye: Seeing Specific Details
    3. The Artist's Rhythms: The Music of Parallel Structures
    4. From Imitation to Creation: Learning from the Masters
    5. The Artist's Special Effects: The Grammar-Meaning Connection
    6. Toward a Grammar of Passages: Linking Images Beyond the Sentence
    7. Story Grammar and Scenes: Shapes for Fiction
    8. Nonfiction Form #5: A Close Examination of a Feature Article Form
    9. Systematic Revision: Form, Style, Content, and Conventions

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