Descriptive writing trail
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Notebook activity - matching | ||
Drag and drop task that links to 'Describing a beach or holiday memory' but works equally well as a stand alone activity. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 23/11/2007 | |||
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| From the resource collection: Descriptive writing trail | Writing to inform, explain, describe |
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Annotating pictures using Microsoft Excel | ||
How to add comments to a picture - perfect for image analysis, or as a stimulus for descriptive writing. | |||
| KS3 KS4 KS5 | Teaching tools Published: 10/05/2007 | |||
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| From the resource collection: Descriptive writing trail | Making the most of ICT |
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Spooky adjectives |
 
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A lovely activity for children to practise using and identifying adjectives - a spooky theme! | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 13/04/2007 | |||
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| From the resource collection: Descriptive writing trail | Parts of speech |
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Describing a beach or holiday memory | ||
A fun and thought-provoking task based on photographs which encourages the use of figurative language. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 05/03/2007 | |||
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| From the resource collection: Descriptive writing trail | Original writing trail | Writing to inform, explain, describe |
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Put muscle into your writing |
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An exercise that encourages pupils to improve the quality of their writing by using strong verbs. The original resource is followed by a differentiated version for use with students with SEN. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 08/09/2006 | |||
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| From the resource collection: Creative writing (KS3) | Descriptive writing trail | Original writing trail |
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A simile quilt |
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A fun exercise - creating decorative similes. The original resource is followed by a differentiated version for use with students with SEN. | |||
| KS3 | Poetry Published: 19/05/2006 | |||
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| From the resource collection: An introduction to poetry | Descriptive writing trail |
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Understanding similes and metaphors |
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A very simple exercise which asks pupils to draw the image before deciding if it's a simile or metaphor. The original resource is followed by a differentiated version for use with students with SEN. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Poetry Published: 24/06/2005 | |||
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| From the resource collection: Descriptive writing trail | Poetry basics |
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Quickfire adverbs (2) | ||
A nice kinaesthetic quiz activity using PowerPoint. An interactive version for pupils to categorise adverbs is also available. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 13/03/2005 | |||
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| From the resource collection: Descriptive writing trail | Lesson starters |
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Writing checklists |
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A collection of pupil or teacher ticklists for writing, including the necessary nine of writing (general), newspaper writing, descriptive writing and story writing. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Skills Published: 13/03/2005 | |||
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| From the resource collection: AfL | Descriptive writing trail | Original writing trail |
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Quickfire adverbs PowerPoint | ||
Lovely. Introductory presentation which would work well as a lesson starter. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 23/11/2004 | |||
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| From the resource collection: Descriptive writing trail | Lesson starters |
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How Dickens appeals to our senses | ||
Close reading of an extract followed by a writing task. | |||
| KS3 KS4 | Prose Published: 13/01/2004 | |||
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| From the resource collection: Descriptive writing trail | Introducing Dickens |
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A handy template for 'writing to describe' | ||
Fill in the boxes as preparation for any descriptive writing task. | |||
| KS4 | Skills Published: 29/10/2003 | |||
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| From the resource collection: Creative writing (KS4) | Descriptive writing trail |
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The deserted house descriptive writing task | ||
A handy task planning sheet. | |||
| KS3 | Poetry Published: 23/05/2003 | |||
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| From the resource collection: Descriptive writing trail | The Deserted House |
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Setting the scene (chapter 2) | ||
Focus on use of adjectives and nouns in a given extract to set the scene. | |||
| KS3 | Prose Published: 26/09/2002 | |||
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| From the resource collection: Descriptive writing trail | Skellig by David Almond |
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A short practice descriptive writing exercise | ||
Useful as preparation for exam / timed conditions writing. | |||
| KS4 | Skills Published: 20/05/2002 | |||
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| From the resource collection: Creative writing (KS4) | Descriptive writing trail |
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Lesson starters - adjectives, synonyms and antonyms | ||
Lesson plan and resources. Use word cards to reinforce understanding of synonyms and antonyms. A Teachit Interactive exercise is also available - match words with their synonyms and antonyms. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 01/08/2001 | |||
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| From the resource collection: Descriptive writing trail | Lesson starters |
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A copy of the poem, with activities | ||
Prompt questions, illustration activity and 'Through the Keyhole' advertising activity. | |||
| KS3 | Poetry Published: 01/05/2001 | |||
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| From the resource collection: Descriptive writing trail | The Deserted House |
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Descriptive writing tasks | ||
Interesting and focused. | |||
| KS3 | Poetry Published: 01/05/2001 | |||
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| From the resource collection: Descriptive writing trail | The Deserted House |
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Descriptions of Skellig | ||
Close reading of language (looking at adjectives, nouns, verbs and similes) followed by descriptive writing task. | |||
| KS3 | Prose Published: 01/05/2001 | |||
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| From the resource collection: Descriptive writing trail | Skellig by David Almond |
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The darkness downstairs | ||
A lesson plan for a simple but effective approach to descriptive writing which asks students to continue a narrative using only two senses. | |||
| KS4 | Skills Published: 01/01/2001 | |||
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| From the resource collection: Creative writing (KS4) | Descriptive writing trail |
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Sherbet lemon game |
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A fun way to teach aspects of descriptive writing that will cost you a bag of sherbet lemons. | |||
| KS3 | Skills Published: 01/12/2000 | |||
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| From the resource collection: Creative writing (KS3) | Descriptive writing trail |
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Worksheet 2 - adjectives | ||
Underline adjectives in the passage. Make a list of adjectives and describe two people that you know. Make adjectives into comparative adjectives. | |||
| KS3 | Prose Published: 01/10/2000 | |||
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| From the resource collection: Descriptive writing trail | Whispers in the Graveyard by Theresa Breslin |
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