Wonderscape
Enhancing Narratives with Adjectives and Adverbs
Discover how to use adjectives and adverbs to add color and detail to your stories, such as describing a vacation to the Grand Canyon. Learn about descriptive adjectives, adjectives of quantity, and number adjectives to make your writing...
Curated Video
Adjectives & Adverbs
"Adjectives & Adverbs" reviews and identifies adjectives and adverbs.
Curated Video
Descriptive Writing
Descriptive Writing explains the purpose of descriptive writing and lists examples of focused, specific topics for descriptive writing.
Curated Video
Writing with Vivid Descriptions
Writing with Vivid Descriptions explores descriptive writing by creating a menu for an imaginary restaurant that contains at least ten vivid descriptions of the menu items.
Curated Video
Improve your Descriptive Writing
Learn how to improve your descriptive writing. The four component of effective descriptive writing are explained: paying attention to details, using descriptive language, including multiple senses, and organisation.
TED-Ed
How to Make Your Writing Suspenseful
Viewers get some tips on how to create suspense in their writing from a short video that draws on examples from Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, and even Oedipus Rex. Remember: It's not what happens but...
TED-Ed
How to Write Fiction That Comes Alive
Launch a fiction writing unit with this video that encourages writers to craft their stories with language that permits readers to experience the illusions of their stories.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Descriptive Papers: The Thesis
This video lesson details how to write a thesis for a descriptive paper including what is required: identifying the subject being described, providing the perspective/stance, and the reasons or point of the description. It also provides...
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Brainstorming Description of a Person
In this lesson, you will learn how to describe your topic by constructing a web with adjectives that tell about your topic. [3:04]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Describe Characters Through Dialogue
In this lesson, students use dialogue as one method to let the reader know more about the characters and practice adding dialogue to describe characters. [10:09]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Use Specific Words to Describe Events and Setting
In this lesson, students use precise words and phrases to create mental images for their readers, and practice adding specific words to make the writing come alive. [9:29]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Use Detailed Descriptions in Personal Narrative
In this lesson, you will learn how to improve your personal narrative by using detailed descriptions as you write. [6:55]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Descriptive Papers: Key Elements: Lesson 1
This lesson goes over words, phrases, and key elements that are included in descriptive papers. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Descriptive Papers: Key Elements."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Descriptive Papers: Organization
This lesson discusses structuring an outline for a descriptive paper. [5:36]