Showing not telling activities
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This helpful resource is ideal for helping students to stretch and strengthen their creative and descriptive writing skills.
Perfect for supporting students in becoming more developed and mature writers, there are a series of tasks for students to complete based on images and short extracts to help them explore detail in their writing.
Students can then write their own responses to targeted tasks and analyse writing examples based on a GCSE English Language exam style question.
There is also an extension activity available, focusing on a sample answer and guiding students with a specific paragraph structure to help them extend skills.
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A sample extract from the resource:
Analyse
How has the writer made the reader feel as though they are right there with the character, experiencing what they are going through?
Hint: PEACE paragraph
Point: a short statement answering the question.
Evidence: a quotation from the text.
Author’s method: what language techniques/words has the writer used?
Context: the situation/the way the technique has been used.
Effect: how is this relevant to the question? What is the overall effect on the reader?
