Awesome Art Projects That Spark Super Writing: 25 Motivating Art Projects With Mini-Lessons That Help Students Build Skills in Narrative, Expository, Persuasive, and Descriptive Writing

by Jan Wiezorek

This collection of motivating art projects features 25 sure-fire ways to erase writer’s block—and meet writing standards. Creativity-boosting activities, such as Found-Art Superheroes, The Room of My Dreams, Canned Art, and Shakespeare at the Movies, help students craft a coherent story, develop and support a main idea, build a persuasive argument, describe a scene using precise words, and much more. Using the art they create, students have a concrete visual idea and a high-interest starting point from which to begin writing—and their ideas flow onto the page. Teaching material includes mini-lessons, step-by-step directions, cross-curricular strategies, rubrics, and photographs of student samples. For use with Grades 4-8.

64 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2011

About the author

Jan Wiezorek writes and teaches elementary school in Chicago. This is his first published work of fiction. He is the author of Awesome Art Projects That Spark Super Writing (New York: Scholastic, 2011).