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Improving Descriptive Writing: Painting an Original Picture PPTImproving Descriptive Writing: Painting an Original Picture PPT
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Improving Descriptive Writing: Painting an Original Picture

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Descriptive writing is rich in sensory appeals and paints pictures in the minds of readers. Show young writers how to use an on-line thesaurus and a cliché website to create fresh, descriptive writing. The presentation ends with an exercise that asks viewers to replace the clichés in the provided poem. Did you know there is a cliché website?

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Grade
10th - 12th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Type
Presentations
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For Teacher Use
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12

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Practice descriptive writing with a prompt that includes a photograph. Writers craft the whole story of the single second caught in a photo using the provided questions to prompt their imaginations. 
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Indiana Univerisity of Pennsylvania: Writing Center: Descriptive Writing

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This website from the Writing Center at Indiana Univerisity of Pennsylvania focuses on descriptive writing. It includes discussion and examples of the following: Creating a dominant impression or mood, using sensory details, using vivid...
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Descriptive Writing: Using Art to Inspire description

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Write with the senses! Try using art to inspire writers to consider all of the senses. Here, the class is divided in half. Each group looks at one of two images, imagines the senses that would be engaged, and records answers to five...
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What A Pair! A Cross Grade Writing Activity

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