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Picture This

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Learners create a descriptive paragraph conveying ideas utilizing a personal photograph as a prompt for their writing. This concept includes the writers emotions, personal issues, education, art and photography. They share insights to...
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My Favorite Room

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice describing a room. In this descriptive writing lesson plan, students use all of their five senses to describe their favorite room. The teacher will model for the class by creating a word list that describe the classroom...
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Quite a Reaction

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In this chemical reaction worksheet, students experiment with soda and Mentos candy to observe a chemical reaction. Students describe the reaction, identify the investigation as descriptive or qualitative and make a prediction if the...
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Light Stick Chemistry

For Students 6th
In this descriptive investigation worksheet, 6th graders conduct an investigation to determine if heat energy affects the brightness of a light stick. The students will form a prediction, collect data and answer 3 conclusion questions.
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Concise Directions: Pictures in School

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars practice giving directions. In this descriptive writing lesson, students create maps and other visual aids that provide sets of directions for young scholars to get from one location of their school building to another. 
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School-Home Links: Descriptive Writing

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this descriptive writing worksheet, students learn to add words that describe and make their writing better. Students find words that better describe an apple and write a descriptive sentence about it. Parents or guardians must sign...
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Writing and Understanding Descriptive Sentences

For Students 4th - 6th
In this descriptive writing worksheet, students read five descriptive sentences and draw a picture of each of the people as they are described. Next students draw five more people, and write their own description of each one.
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School-Home Links: Writing Descriptions

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this descriptive writing worksheet, students review the process of descriptive writing. Students choose a topic from the given list and then complete the brainstorming checklist. Parents or guardians must sign the worksheet.
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Descriptive Paper - And Then There Were None

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie.  In this characterization instructional activity, students locate passages that contain character descriptions and settings. Students write a descriptive essay on the...
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Descriptive Words

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars explore descriptive words. In this writing lesson, students practice using descriptive words that show instead of tell. Young scholars complete a worksheet that requires them to rewrite the sentences using more descriptive...
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Writing Descriptive Sentences

For Students 6th - 12th
In this writing worksheet, learners choose descriptive words from various categories to write expressive and descriptive sentences. Categories include: age, color, origin, material, adjectives, and nouns.
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Description Words

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this descriptive words worksheet, students identify each picture. Students then write three descriptive words that describe the toys in each picture.
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ESL Adjective Descriptions

For Students 3rd - 4th
In these English Language grammar worksheets, students learn to write descriptions using adjectives and forms of be. Students complete
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Descriptive Prompt

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars create a detailed self portrait, and then write about their appearance.
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Descriptive Writing About a Picture

For Teachers 1st
First graders word process a topic sentence, two detail sentences and a concluding sentence about an image. They import a picture and change the font color of their writing.
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Job Descriptions: He and She

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this pronoun usage worksheet, students complete 4 activities that help them learn to correctly use the pronouns he and she. Students match jobs and descriptions and write sentences using the pronouns.
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Test Yourself! Matching Shops and Descriptions

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this matching activity, students draw lines to match the description of a shop and what it sells with the person who words there and sells the items. Students then count coins and match money with objects.
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Descriptive Writing Fortunes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
What does your fortune say? Engage class members in writing complete sentences by first handing out fortune cookies and reading the messages. Pupils will practice writing complete sentences by composing fortunes to put in die cut fortune...
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Number Breakdown and Description Worksheet

For Students 1st - 2nd
How many ones and how many tens? Explore place value and addition. Learners begin by solving two missing addend problems followed by an addition and subtraction equation. Then, they read two sentences describing numbers by their place...
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Narrative Writing

For Teachers 8th Standards
Binoculars are used as a metaphor for good descriptive writing. Class members first view a small picture and then an enlarged view of the same image in which the details come into focus. Next, learners examine a paragraph lacking sensory...
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What's on a Penny?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
As a lesson on scientific observation, have your class investigate the features of a penny and a nickel. Working in pairs, they practice writing detailed descriptions using their senses and a ruler to gather information. This is an...
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Responding Syllables: Reading and Music

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
Shell Silverstein’s “Sick” provides an opportunity for kids to demonstrate their understanding of syllables and phonemes. The class creates a list of descriptive words used in the poem that have more than one syllable, and brainstorm how...
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Rock Swap

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students collect rocks found locally and write a brief description which includes the name of the rock, whether the rock is sedimentary, metamorphic, or igneous, and what uses the rock has. They exchange rocks with another class in...
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Melba Pattillo and Ruby Bridges: Two Heroes of School Integration

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Learners put themselves in the shoes of students who integrated Little Rock High School in 1957-58. Note: The primary resources in this activity provide powerful and poignant descriptions of what those students faced.

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