The Power of Scripaperbackwriting! ― Teaching Essential Writing Skills Through Podcasts, Graphic Novels, Movies, and More

Gutierrez, an educational consultant who has been an English and social studies teacher and professional scriptwriter, shows teachers how to use scriptwriting to motivate students to write, learn the rules of writing in general, and support literacy skills across the disciplines, as well as aid English language learners. He presents projects that can be used to support an existing writing curriculum, covering scripts for spoken word and audio, comics and graphic novels, movies and television, and digital storytelling and video, as well as special projects ranging from live multimedia events to picture books and reality TV. Each includes information on why to teach the genre, links to standards, activities, connecting topics to students' prior experience with scriptwriting and media, terminology, script types, formats, connections to specific writing skills, links to other disciplines, the writing process, and differentiation ideas. He begins with a chapter on stage plays as a starting place and general strategies and issues related to scripts, and appendices contain writing checklists and rubrics for assessment. Annotation c2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)