One of the things we always strive for in writing is for our words to paint a picture for the reader. We want them to be able to envision the images we create with our adjectives and descriptions. With Halloween occurring last week, it gave us the perfect opportunity to practice our descriptive writing in [...]
In class we have been working on ways to make our writing more descriptive. We often discuss ways to “paint a picture” for our reader. Chris van Allsburg was a master at this. Each student agreed that we could imagine the way that his books would look even if he didn’t put pictures in them. [...]
This week we have been discussing descriptive writing. We have been learning about how adding adjectives and similes can help to build a story that the reader can step right into. Yesterday we came up with some similes and adjectives that describe winter. We then crumpled up the paper to create snowballs and had a [...]
