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Writing to describe
Students examine descriptive writing. For this writing lesson, students listen to an audio version of the diary of Lt. Polly Hatchard and her expedition to the South Pole. Students explore the components of descriptive writing and...
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Holistic Lesson Plan - Potato Writing
Eleventh graders, in groups of three, improve their descriptive writing skills by receiving a numbered potato. They write a description of their potato without disclosing the number. Groups take turns trying to guess which potato is...
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ESL Lesson Idea: Describing People
Students practice using the proper vocabulary to provide a physical description of a person. They focus on the details that are necessary to give a complete description by participating in a teacher directed guessing game.
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What's an Ecotect?
In this future jobs worksheet, learners use their creative thinking to select 10 job titles from a list and write a description for each job title. Students discuss as a class what good descriptions are and they discuss life in the future.
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Who Am I? (Intermediate Grades)
Learners write "Guess Who?" poems in a descriptive manner. They listen to the poems as they are read aloud and try to guess who the poem belongs to.
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Mouthwatering Adjectives!
Third graders write descriptions of food items in order to create a restaurant menu. They use adjectives to describe mouth-watering and vivid food and compare it to a boring adjective-lacking menu. They design and share their menus with...
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Create Your Island Paradise
Sixth graders create a descriptive essay and map describing their island paradise. They try to evoke the reader's senses: seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, and tasting. They revise their paragraphs using their partner's feedback.
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Monster Writings
Fourth graders practice descriptive writing by describing a fictitious monster they created. In this language arts lesson plan, 4th graders illustrate an image of a monster character they imagine and practice using their vocabulary...
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I See and I Think (It's A Wonderful World)
Students analyze song lyrics (by listening to the song) to pick-out descriptive vocabulary. They use this descriptive vocabulary to create a drawing of the images they "see" in the song. They compare their drawings to find similarities...
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What's in the Box
Second graders verbalize, write, and illustrate descriptive vocabulary words and/or descriptive phrases while attempting to guess an unseen object, which has been hidden in a box by teacher.
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Mystery Masks
First graders listen to "Is Your Mama a Llama?" for descriptive words. They make a mask showing features of one animal. They draw a self-portrait and staple their masks onto the self-portrait. They write 3 complete sentences that...
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Which Shoes Are Mine?
Fourth graders write down detailed descriptions of the shoes they are wearing that day. They participate in a relay descriping their shoes as they go.
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What Is It? Tommy Tastes
Students complete multi-curricular to learn about senses and sensory words. In this sensory words instructional activity, students discuss the five senses and the anatomy of a tongue. Students complete a food tasting activity and find...
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Functions
In this functions worksheet, 11th graders solve 10 different problems that include various functions of domain. First, they determine the domain of a given function. Then, students determine the range of another function. They also...
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How to Score in the Word Series
Students examine an object in the classroom and write a description of it employing exciting language. They brainstorm and outline ideas for an original article about an event they participated in or attended.
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Imagine This
Students write descriptive words about colorful pictures and then write about a character. In this writing lesson plan, students have a character worksheet to fill out.
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Millennium Santa!
Third graders decide what would make Santa look modern and in style. They write a descriptive paragraph that another student then reads. They try to draw the image conveyed in the writing. They read the paragraphs and match them with the...
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Does Word Choice Affect the Quality of a Piece of Writing?
Learners discuss the importance of word choice in writing. In groups, they rank a list of words from one extreme to the other. After viewing an example, students apply their knowledge of word choice by writing a descriptive paragraph of...
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Harry Hears!
Students explore ear anatomy and the sense of hearing. In this hearing lesson, students discuss the five senses and view a model of an ear. Students place cotton balls in their ears to simulate loss of hearing. Students use descriptive...
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Dream Bed
Learners design and write descriptions of imaginary beds. In this interior design lesson, students use various art materials such as paint, fabric, boxes, and string to create a model of a bed. Learners use descriptive words to write a...
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Writing Skills: LETTERS HOME
Students compose a descriptive letter to their families. For this descriptive writing lesson students write a letter as if they have left their family for a new country and will try to convince their families to join them. ...
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The Prairie Is...
Students investigate different environments by creating a poem. In this prairie environment lesson, students research information about Kansas' natural resources and complete a worksheet about prairies. Students practice using...
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Planets
First graders study the planets in the solar system. In this planets lesson, 1st graders read Planets, then create a mobile containing all of the planets in the correct order. Students will label the planets with descriptive words.
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The Tempest: Picture Poems
High schoolers, in pairs, write descriptive poems of selected images of The Tempest using vocabulary from a word bank. They pass the poems only to other groups and then they attempt to draw an image solely based on the poem.
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