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In the middle of nowhere, I stumbled upon this antiquated, wooden building, which stood out like a sore thumb upon the hill. Its narrow wooden steps, with rotted and missing tredders, beckoned to me ominously. As I gingerly ascended the steps, the floor boards moaned loudly from the unaccustomed weight. Fearing for my life, I quickly grabbed unto the fragile rails...
https://images.app.goo.gl/y6yjEM1SMnXc5BNZ8This is what descriptive writing does. It paints a picture with words. Descriptive writing is one which I enjoy as I am able to direct the minds of readers. Also, with the use of sensory details , readers get a vivid picture of my story.
Take-aways from my descriptive writing experience:
- Choose a topic that you are comfortable with as this will allow you to provide enough information on the topic.
- Create an outline about what is it you are going to focus on in your piece of writing.
- Always use sensory details.
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My experience at T.A Marryshow Community College has opened my eyes to the reality that as a teacher, I must allow my students to give off their best in their writing. Descriptive writing involves sensory details and as a result I must provide avenues to get such from my students. A very useful method used by my lecturer was a journey in our minds of what the different rooms of an abandoned building looks like. An excellent way of preparing us for our descriptive piece. I intend to adopt this because it helps students to visualize a scene even if they did not have much knowledge about the scene. Very useful indeed to facilitate writing. Likewise, what was useful for me was the use of the internet to look at pictures of different rooms of an abandoned building. The two above mentioned strategies will be practical for my students as well because it will provide background knowledge on the topic chosen. Again and again, I am anxious to get back into the classroom to apply what was learnt.
This anchor chart provides descriptive words for students as they write.
Here is a link to Reading Rockets (https://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/descriptive_writing). This link provides a comprehensive report on descriptive writing. It provides information on what descriptive writing entails, its importance, how to teach descriptive writing, the use of a graphic organiser to write a descriptive piece, a writer's workshop with a group of students , differentiated instructions to assist second language learners as well as children books containing descriptive writing.
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Descriptive Writing, Painting a Picture with Words!!!
Hey Keida, very interesting and captivating introduction to this blog. I thought it was very apt and it served it’s purpose well in capturing the attention of the reader. Indeed, I felt as though I were apart of the scene. I myself have “a thing” for descriptive writing. I see it as being the canvas that a writer who has no idea about painting uses to bring writing to life.
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