YEAR 7

DESCRIPTIVE
WRITING
To acquire the skills required for vivid, ambitious descriptive writing.
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Copy the title and date

 Recap:
ADJECTIVES

5 SENSES

LITERARY DEVICES

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 Structure and Paragraphs:
With descriptive writing, it is important to show understanding of how to structure
your description.

Normal paragraph rules apply. Copy this down:

You start a new paragraph for a new time, person, topic or place.

Sometimes this means that paragraphs are one word or one sentence long: that is OK!

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 To help you remember…

Ti P To P
Time Person Topic Place
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 Sometimes it is easier to think of three or four different types of people who you might find
in the scene.
You could have a paragraph about each person and what they are doing/where they are. This
allows you to use paragraphs effectively and show different angles to the scene that you have
been given.

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 You may wish, alternatively, to think about different sections or ‘places’ in the scene, such as
in a market, you could do different types of stall. One person could be walking through the
market looking at each stall in turn.

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 Planning – in your books…
Choose one of the titles below.
Plan three different people that you might find in the scene and three
different places / sections.

The Airport
A Summer Fair
A School Playground
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 Example…
The Airport

People
- Cleaner
- Holidaymaker
- Security Guard

Places
- Coffee shop
- Baggage claim
- Runway

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 Map it:
Use each of your people/scenes as a focus for a mind map.

Map ideas that you have about that person/scene; be as ambitious as

possible and think about the descriptive writing tips from last week’s
lesson.

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 Example…
The Airport
cleaner

People
- Cleaner
- Holidaymaker
- Security Guard

Places
- Coffee shop
- Baggage claim
- Runway

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 Try writing about ONE of these in close
detail now, using a range of descriptive
writing techniques, e.g. 5 senses,
adjectives, etc.

10 minutes

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 Read your paragraph to a friend
Have they used SOME of the 5 senses?
◦ Ask them how it might improve
Adjectives?
◦ Make any notes in purple Literary devices, e.g. hyperbole,,,?

Using the ideas for improvement, write

another paragraph about any of the other
mind maps you have made.
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