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Write Express: How to Write a Descriptive Essay
This website focuses on how to write a descriptive essay including identifying subject, purpose, incorporating sensory images, and quick tips for planning, drafting, and revising the essay. It also provides links to related articles.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What's Going on and Where Am I?
In this lesson, students write a descriptive essay about an historical event as seen through the eyes of an alien from a different planet and time. The lesson encourages the use of colorful and exciting adjectives, adverbs, and verbs in...
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Literacy Education Online: Sensory Details
This site provides several sample sentences which show sensory details and aid students in writing specific rather than general sentences. It is a good site for someone preparing to write a descriptive essay. W.9-10.3d Precise/sensory...
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Alex: My Own Kingdom
This lesson requires students to write a descriptive essay and make an illustration of their own imaginary kingdom and share with the class. This lesson can be done after reading about Leslie's and Jesse's kingdom from the book, Bridge...
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Alex: Writing to Determine, "What Is a Pulgar?"
This lesson plan is a writing follow-up to the guided reading lesson plan, "What is a Pulgar?" It utilizes a Makes Sense Strategies Think-sheet to guide the writing.