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Utah Education Network

Uen: Descriptive Sensory Writing

For Teachers 5th Standards
In this instructional activity, 5th graders will engage in descriptive writing. Students will improve a piece of writing by using precise word choices that are full of sensory word choices.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Starting & Stopping With Strong Imagery: Revision Strategy

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this instructional activity, students will engage in revising their writings to incorporate sensory images. Students will brainstorm topics of places, away from their home, that are special. Then students will choose and then write a...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Bizarre Foods With Ralph Fletcher: A Narrative Revision Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this lesson, Ralph Fletcher's writing style is introduced to student writers. Young scholars will write a rough draft about a time they ate, or a time when they saw someone else eat, something unusual. Then students will read and...
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Write Express: How to Write a Descriptive Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This website focuses on how to write a descriptive essay including identifying subject, purpose, incorporating sensory images, and quick tips for planning, drafting, and revising the essay. It also provides links to related articles.
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Study.com: How to Use Descriptive Details & Sensory Language in Your Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
When you write a narrative, you can draw your reader into your experiences by adding specific, concrete details and sensory language to your storytelling. This lesson tells you exactly how to do it. W.9-10.3d Precise/sensory details,...
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South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Writing Letters

For Teachers 3rd Standards
The students will learn how to form a proper letter. They will be able to remove key ideas/details from a text and apply it to their writing. They will also be able to incorporate transition and descriptive words into their writing.
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Cyberwriter: Descriptive Writing

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Resource gives writing activities leveled K-1st grade, 2nd & 3rd grades and 4th through 8th grades.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How to Write Descriptively

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The point of fiction is to cast a spell, a momentary illusion that you are living in the world of the story. But how do writers suck readers into stories in this way? Nalo Hopkinson shares some tips for how to use language to make your...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Story Writing With Arthur

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This series of 12 downloadable activities teach students some basics of story writing, using books or videos from the PBS "Arthur" series as a springboard. Activities include creating story maps, asking questions about characters and...
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National Writing Project: Collaborating to Write Dialogue

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, writing partners work together to develop a plot and characters. The lesson emphasizes the use of dialogue to develop the characters and plot of the story.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: To Imitate Two Nature Writers

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson plan each writer will compose and revise a "showing" description inpsired by an object or a place in nature. Long before drafting, students will discuss and compare the writing styles and techniques of published authors...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: How to Write a Descriptive Essay

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
The students will learn to write a descriptive essay about a three-day space camp experience at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center. Students will then produce a multimedia slideshow about the experience.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Moving Through a Machine

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
After enjoying chapter 3 from Robert McCloskey's classic chapter book Homer Price young scholars will work together to expand upon McCloskey's description of how the donut-making machine works. Focusing on a variety of transitions,...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: You're on a Gigantic Roll

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity the writer will imagine and compose a descriptive paragraph that focuses on a gigantic object moving through a specific setting and leaving destruction in its wake, modeled after the book James and the Giant Peach by...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Unique Imaginary Friends

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
The writer will first create an original imaginary friend, inspired by Ted from Tony DiTerlizzi's wonderful picture book. The writer will then think of an ordinary activity done on a daily basis, like feeding the family dog. The writer...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Magical Animal Encounter

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This writing lesson plan is fashioned after Harry Potter's encounter with a communicative boa constrictor at the zoo. Inspired by Rowling's original idea, students will be asked to create a three-part story about an original magical...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Picture Book Writing Lesson: Three Meal Weather

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Inspired by Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi & Ron Barrett, young scholars will brainstorm adjectives that center around food that might fall from the sky. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner foods will be brainstormed. They will...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Plan an Amazing Sleep Over!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
After reading Anne Whitford Paul's book Everything to Spend the Night from A-Z, students write about a real or imaginary sleepover and what things they should take to make it a wonderful night.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Let's Write About the American Flag

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will brainstorm adjectives to describe the American Flag and will write two descriptive sentences for homework. Students will also create star art to accompany their writing to show the relationship between words and pictures...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Sounds: What We Hear!

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will create a descriptive writing about the sounds they hear in a favorite place. This is a good follow-up to a science unit on sound.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Three Serendipitous Nouns

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson plan, the book entitled A Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink: What Is a Noun? (Words Are Categorical), written by Brian P. Cleary, is used as the mentor text. After learning the basic definition of noun, a person, place, thing,...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Literature Inspired Writing Lesson: A Time Traveler's Log

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will read chapter four of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, noting both the time traveler's descriptions of the new world of 800,000 ACE, and the conclusions the main character draws as a 19th century man. Students will think of a...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Rolling With the Animals

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
After reading Duck on a Bike by David Shannon, the writer will plan an original story where an animal (other than a duck) finds itself in a human mode of transportation (other than a bike). Three other animals will react to the unusual...
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Writing World: Four Ways to Bring Settings to Life

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A great resource outlining four major ways to make settings appear more real and genuine in fiction. Deals with themes such as motion, experience, mood, and the senses. W.11-12.3d Sensory/precise lang narratives

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