Writing Fix: Show What Your Mind Sees

This writing activity asks writers to make use of both showing and telling as they create a well-organized paragraph of description. After reviewing showing versus telling by building a writer's notebook page, each writer will show what they've learned by revising a new telling sentence (one with a linking verb and an adjective). Each writer will create a descriptive paragraph that contains four or five showing sentences and one telling sentence. The showing sentences will contain action verbs and interesting adjectives, and the telling sentence should become the final paragraph's introduction or conclusion.