Elaboration 

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To improve on your elaboration skills, you can add details in your illustrations and in your writing.  When adding lines or words to your ideas, think about many, varied, and unusual ways* to your creative designs.

With the pictures below, try to think of something that no one has thought of before.  Then, try to make your picture tell a story by adding an interesting title on the lines provided below the picture.
 

1.________________		2._______________		3._______________

When scoring for elaboration, award one point for each detail.  Ex: When drawing a face, you would receive 1 point.  BUT adding eyes, ears, nose, eye lashes, eye brows, glasses, hair, lips, tongue, mustache, pimples, etc.  Give yourself
1+11=12 points.  Adding color allows you to double your points.  

Also award a point for each word used in your title.

Have some fun by inviting your friends to try these too.  Or send them to us so that we can post them on this site.  Just send them to edge@lingle.nwsc.k12.ar.us and include the word "picture" in the subject line of your e-mail.
 

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* This is the 'kid talk' from Calvin Taylor's Talents Unlimited when developing productivity.