Image Grammar

As I read through portions of Harry Noden's Image Grammar book and recalled his class last semester, I realized that I wrote a research paper over Image Grammar in my sophomore year before I even had the faintest idea who Harry Noden was. In my research paper, I explained how Image Grammar was a good tool to use to help developing writers learn how to deviate from the usual "subject, verb, object" sentences. It also shows the students how professional and famous authors use their writing to create images in their readers' minds, and then instructs the students on how to write in the same way. Writing a research paper about this book, I definitely feel as though I learned a great deal on how to teach and use Image Grammar.

Because the Image Grammar book is an effective teaching tool to assist students in deviating from their usual sentence structures, I feel as though it is important for me to use this in my classroom. The grades I feel would benefit the most from lessons in Image Grammar would be grades seven through nine. Any grade after ninth, I feel would possibly be bored and disinterested in a lesson over Imager Grammar. I could be wrong though. By teaching seventh through ninth graders Image Grammar, I feel as though the students would start to see their writing in a different light. Instead of viewing it as a forced assignment where all the facts must be written directly on paper, maybe the students would start to view writing as a fun assignment where they could use their words to excite their audience and put detailed pictures in their readers' minds.