creative writing

"Animation is a limitless medium for telling stories. Artists can create worlds, defy gravity, flip from factual to fantasy, and transport audiences to places they never imagined. The challenge is having the discipline to reel it in and be intentional about your storytelling choices. This book shows you how. In Animated Storytelling, you'll learn how to create memorable stories using animation and motion graphics by following 10 simple guidelines that take you through the stages of concept development, pre-production, storyboarding, and design. Award-winning animator Liz Blazer uses clear examples and easy-to-follow exercises to provide you with the instruction, encouragement, and tools you need to get your designs moving. Whether your goal is to create exciting shorts for film festivals, effective messaging for broadcast or online, or simply to gain a deeper understanding of the medium, Animated Storytelling simplifies the process of creating clear and engaging stories for animation and motion graphics so you can get started easily"--www.peachpit.com.

"[Geared to teachers, this book] shares the whys and the how of giving students time and autonomy for the playful, low-stakes writing that [the author maintains] leads to surprising, high-level growth. [Presents] five ideas for authentic, choice-driven writing ... [and] numerous suggestions for helping students build and flex their writing muscles, increase their stamina, and develop passion for expressing themselves with the written word"--Provided by publisher.

A diary-style workbook for young children that prompts them to describe their faces, families, and favorite colors and animals.

"What happens when the story ideas--from a bored Viking to a space robot--kept in a teacher's special jar escape and get rowdy?"--Provided by publisher.

Colby Sharp presents the results of a creative-writing challenge offered to more than forty beloved, award-winning, diverse, and best-selling authors and illustrators.

"Presents an overview of narrative poems, including the form's history, elements, and traits and how poets use narrative poems to express ideas."--Publisher description.

"Presents an overview of rhyming poems, including the form's history, elements, and traits and how poets use rhyming poems to express ideas."--Publisher description.

"Presents an overview of prose poems, including the form's history, elements, and traits and how poets use prose poems to express ideas."--Publisher description.

"In 'Writers Are Readers,' the mutually supportive roles of reading and writing are made visible through the idea of 'flipsides': how a reader's insights can be turned around to provide insights into his own writing, and vice versa"--Back cover.

Provides three hundred strategies for improving the writing skills of students and includes suggestions for stocking a writing center planning units, celebrating writing, and keeping records.