![]() Repeated, structured practice scaffolded to meet students’ needs. Modeling different ways to generate descriptive writing. Helping students make the connection between sensory input (sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch) and descriptive writing. Reading aloud and analyzing high-quality mentor texts to help students understand how authors use descriptive writing to connect with readers. There isn’t one right approach to teaching descriptive writing, but effective instruction often includes: What effective instruction in descriptive writing looks like Descriptive writing about a person might begin with a physical description, followed by how the person thinks, feels and acts. Some ways to organize descriptive writing include: chronological (time), spatial (location), and order of importance. Instead, specific adjectives and nouns and strong action verbs give life to the picture being painted in the reader’s mind. ![]() General adjectives, nouns, and passive verbs are used sparingly. Tools of the writer’s craft such as analogy, simile, and metaphor add depth to authors’ descriptions. Descriptive writing may also go beyond creating a strong sensory impression to give the reader a “picture” of the feelings the description evokes in the writer. Specific details paint a picture in the reader’s mind and appeal to the reader’s senses. What effective descriptive writing looks likeĪuthors of descriptive writing use a variety of styles and techniques to connect with readers, but effective descriptive writing often shares these characteristics: ![]() An understanding of the characteristics of effective descriptive writing, combined with a toolkit of structures and strategies to scaffold learning and practice, can enhance students’ development as authors of vivid, evocative writing. The good news is that it can be explicitly taught. If only descriptive writing were as simple as “show, don’t tell”! Descriptive writing is a skill - and a craft - that takes instruction, practice, and time to learn. ![]()
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