Descriptive Writing

In Language, we have begun our Descriptive Writing unit.  The students have been listening to teacher read alouds of example descriptive texts and finding descriptive features in the books we read together.  Students have also written a description of a pumpkin carving idea they had as well as a description of their favourite stuffie.

This week, one of our favourite descriptive stories was 'Miss Rumphius'.  We talked about how the author uses words to paint vivid pictures (or movie) in our mind.  The author also uses words to evoke our senses and makes us feel like we are right there in the story.