Descriptive+Writing

 Descriptive Writing   Descriptive writing is when students use writing techniques to create word pictures and to make their writing more vivid and concrete by creating sensory images, comparisons and dialogue (Tompkins, 2008, p. 218). 
 * Description:** 

**Lesson Activities: ** Kindergarten - Grade 2: Create sensory images; add specific information  Grades 3 - 5: Write dialogue; choose words carefully; make comparisons  Gradse 6-8: Use descriptive techniques  __Miss Rumphius__ by B. Cooney __The Keeping Quilt__ by P. Polacco __A Bad Case of Stripes__ by D. Shannon __Owl Moon__ by J. Yolen [] [] []
 * Write 5 senses poems.
 * Brainstorm and cluster sensory words.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Brainstorm lists of descriptive words for photos/illustrations; use these words in descriptive sentences.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Build sentences and add specific information.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Write sentences for wordless picture books.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Write dialogue to accompany photos.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Write dialogue between characters in stories they're reading/writing.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Write dialogue for wordless picture books.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Brainstorm lists of synonyms; use thesaurus.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Make character clusters using descriptive words.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Make simile/metaphor charts.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Identify examples of similes/metaphors in stories/poems.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Write comparisons in sentences/paragraphs.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Identify examples of descriptive techniques in books they're reading.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Use descriptive techniques (word choice, comparisons, etc) as they draft and revise compositions.
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