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Caro Clarke

Caro Clarke: Description: What's It For?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the twelfth article in a series that is designed to help the new novel writer. This article focuses on how to effectively use descriptions in any writing.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Third Grade Writing Lesson #1/ Descriptive Prompt

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Given a descriptive writing prompt, 3rd graders will include precise word choices and sensory language in a piece of writing about their favorite place.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Serendipitous Character Descriptions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students create a unique character and develop a descriptive paragraph utilizing strong word choice.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Rain Drop Shape Poem

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This lesson plan uses the mentor text by Wendy Cheyette Lewison entitled Raindrop, Plop! This instructional activity, which has a focus on word choice, engages young scholars in brainstorming descriptive words and phrases about...
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Other

How to Study: Building Vocabulary: Using Context Clues to Learn Word Meaning

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This resource explains six ways authors use context clues that might help readers understand unfamiliar words. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.4, 8.2.B
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Caro Clarke

The Art of the Unspoken: Saying More by Describing Less

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the thirteenth article in a series that was developed to help the new novel author. This article focuses on how good descriptions aren't necessarily connected with a lot of words, good descriptions are clean and to the point.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Hershey Kiss Descriptive Essay

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This is a fun lesson to demonstrate the power of words to describe a simple chocolate treat prior to writing a five-paragraph descriptive essay.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Nouns, Verbs, and Describing Words

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This language arts lesson uses technology to assess students' understanding of nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Each student will use a digital camera to take a picture at school. He will then write a descriptive sentence about the picture...
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CPALMS

Cpalms: A Chilly Feeling

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this close reading lesson, the students will analyze the poem "It Fell in the City" by Eve Merriam. They will read the poem, identify words or phrases that show feelings or appeal to the senses,...
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Education Place

Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Fantastic Pictures

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Check out this interdisciplinary lesson plan. Students have an opportunity to draw a card with an adjective word and another card with a noun word and then make a drawing of the object.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Readability: Commas as Separators

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on recognizing and demonstrating the use of commas as separators including with transition words, descriptive phrases, and adjacent items. It also provides a practice activity.
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Math Open Reference

Math Open Reference: Root (Of a Number)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn how to find the root of a number. Topics covered include two roots, roots of negative numbers, and imaginary numbers. This site offers descriptions along with multiple examples.
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Goodwill

Gcf Global: Adjectives and Adverbs

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This tutorial explores the difference between adjectives and adverbs so you can use them properly.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Using Vivid Adjectives

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This upper elementary lesson focuses on the use of vivid adjectives to enhance student writing. Learners will explore vivid adjectives in a variety of activities including thesaurus use and story development software.
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Caro Clarke

Explaining Too Much: Why More Is Less

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the eleventh article in a series that is designed to help the new novel author. This article focuses on how to eliminate needless information in your novel. The key is to not explain too much about the action.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: Start & Stop Game: Adjectives

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
To use this writing prompt generator, click on the button until you find an adjective that inspires a description or a poem in your mind. Sometimes just one good word can put a whole story idea in your head! The object of every Start...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: The Start and Stop Game: Verbs

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
To use this writing prompt generator, click on the button until you find a verb that inspires a description or a poem in your mind. Sometimes just one good word can put a whole story idea in your head! The object of every Start &...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Action Packed Rain Forest Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, Jane Yolen's Welcome to the Greenhouse is used as a mentor text. Young scholars will record their favorite verbs from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them. Students will also use...

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