DESCRIPTIVE WRITING

OBJECTIVE:-
1. W1 articulate experience and express what is thought, felt and
imagined
2. W2 organize and structure ideas and opinions for deliberate effect
3. W3 use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures appropriate
to context
4. To understand and apply the techniques of descriptive writing
skills.
 SHOW NOT TELL

Examples:
• 1.
• Abstract: It was a nice day.
• Concrete: The sun was shining and a slight
breeze blew across my face.
2.
• Abstract:- I liked writng poems, not essays.
• Concrete: I liked writing short, rhythmic
poems and hated rambling on about my
thoughts in those four-page essays.
Show, don't tell is a writing technique
in which the story and characters are
related through sensory details and
actions rather than exposition.
 Telling 1. The house was old.
• Showing

The house frowned with a wrinkled brow, and inside it creaked with each step,
releasing a scent of neglected laundry.
 Telling 2. I grew tired after dinner.

Showing
As I leaned back and rested my head against the top of the chair, my eyelids began to feel
heavy and the edges of the empty plate in front of me blurred with the white table cloth.

 HW-

 Telling 1. The clock had been in our family for years.

Showing:- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 Character description

 What to include in character description?

 1. Describe their physical appearance
 What clothes they wear
 What they look like
 What their hair look like
 What makes them different from others
 Use interesting adjectives/vivid verbs/concrete
nouns/imagery- like metaphor/simile etc
 2. Describe their personality
 Character/attitude/behaviour/interests/hobbies/profession/
 3. Include your personal opinion
 ZOOMING

Zooming is a common writing skill
especially used in descriptive writing that
gives the reader the feeling of moving
through space towards or away from a
character or object. It can be divided into
two types, zooming in and zooming out.
 Include the general and particular (Big
Picture and Zoom)
 Plan interesting ideas, using all the senses
 Use interesting vocabulary and descriptive
techniques
 Have you used:
 simile,
 metaphor,
 personification,
 onomatopoeia,
 imagery
 Write clear paragraphs and a range of sentence
types
 Avoid dialogues
The big picture: Zoom 1: Use senses:
Zoom in ! Details
(see, smell, taste,
Provide an over touch, hear)
view and zoom out
the picture in a
point by giving
your impression.

Zoom 2: Zoom 3 The atmosphere:

( final zoom) Zoom out with
your view/
Details impression and
leave
SUCCESS CRITERIA –Descriptive writing
(Assessment As Learning)
 I can use sensory details.
 I can use all the conventions of descriptive
writing.
 I can use a wide range and mature vocabulary.
 I can create well- defined, well- developed ideas
and images in varied sentence structures.
 I can create a wide range of images which
contribute to a sense of atmosphere.