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- Grade Range
- 7th - 9th
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Students examine descriptive language. In a worksheet activity, they practice writing a one-page description of an event, trying to use descriptive words. They also describe a noun, e.g. rabbit, using descriptive language. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students explore using descriptive words by playing a What Do You See? game, describing items in a Mystery Bag, and using Eye-Spy binoculars on an on-campus field trip. They read the book, I Went Walking, and write descriptions of a special object. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st
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Students create a computer slide show. They select pictures from the gallery, write descriptive words or phrases about the pictures, and develop a three slide presentation. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students examine word choice and using descriptive words. They listen to the book "A House for Hermit Crab" by Eric Carle, identify the descriptive words in the story, and create a word web for the word "good" in small groups. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st
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Students explore the use of adjectives and descriptive words. They listen to the book "The Mitten," identify and list the describing words from the story, select a picture from a brown bag, and write a description of their picture, switching descriptions with a partner to draw a picture from the written descriptions. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 4th
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Students create a list of words that describe their best friend. They then search through newspapers and magazines for descriptive words to use in a collage. They select a few appropriate pictures which they arrange and glue onto construction paper with their flattering words. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th
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Students write creatively, each student in a group are able to add thoughs onto a story using descriptive words and both simple and compound sentences after they are reviewed in class. They select number of students read their group's story out loud indicating the descriptive words used and one simple and one compound sentence. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 4th
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Students discover the importance of using descriptive words in good writing. They brainstorm words to describe elephants and dogs then watch a video that describes different items. Each student writes a paragraph using descriptive words to tell a story about a common household object. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 7th
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Students, after brainstorming what descriptive words are and giving a variety of examples, search through newspapers and magazines for descriptive words to use in a collage. They create a collage as a card to give to someone they care about. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd
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Students focus on how descriptive words help them see, feel, and hear a story better. They listen to a read aloud of Angela Johnson's, "The Leaving Morning," while giving a thumbs up signal each time they hear a "sense or how" word. Next, they make a class list of describing words and add them to sentence. Finally, they write descriptive sentences in their writer's notebooks. Full Review »
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