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Reading Rockets: Descriptive Writing ArticleReading Rockets: Descriptive Writing Article
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Reading Rockets: Descriptive Writing

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This is a comprehensive article about what descriptive writing including what it is, why to teach it and strategies to teach it. It also features two videos Five Senses Graphic Organizer and Writing Poems as well as an annotated list of books to use students use in the classroom.

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CCSS: Adaptable
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descriptive writing

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describing, description, writing poems, five senses graphic organizer, reading rockets
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Resource Details

Grade
1st - 5th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Type
Articles
Audiences
For Administrator Use
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Lexile Measures
0L

Common Core

RL.1.4 L.3.5.b RL.5.7 L.2.5.a SL.3.5 SL.3.3 RL.4.6 L.2.3.a RL.2.5 W.4.3.d SL.1.4 RL.1.10 RL.2.4 SL.2.5 RL.3.5 W.5.3.d W.3.1.a L.4.5.a W.1.2 RL.5.6 RF.1.3.d RL.5.5 W.2.2

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