Reading Into Writing

Using Children’s Literature to Teach Writing to Children
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Excerpt from Reading Into Writing,
Using Children’s Literature to Teach Writing to Children (Sheridan Press 2000) page 5:

Mind Invasion, Revisited
When a writer wants a reader to see what she sees, she has to use words that will transfer her picture into the reader’s mind. Much of this process depends on shared cultural assumptions, or shared experience. It does no good, for example, for a writer to tell me that a sunset looks just like the sunsets over the harbor in Durban, South Africa, if I’ve never been there. If she and her words have described Durban to me so well that I can see it just fine and feel that I have indeed been there, then the sunset will work for me, the reader. Otherwise, I’ll feel fooled somehow, and I’ll stop reading.