This document discusses how to write an effective descriptive paragraph. It explains that description shows what a subject is like using vivid sense details. The chapter outlines how to generate ideas, organize a draft with a dominant impression as the topic sentence, and revise using specific language and transitions between ideas. It emphasizes using sensory details to help readers visualize the subject.
Explain description Share examples of descriptive paragraphs.
Reviewhints for writing a descriptive paragraph. Explain specific words and sense words.Activity—Think, Pair, Share: Direct students to think about their favorite celebrity or public figure. Ask students to brainstorm and only include specific or sense words in their descriptions of this individual. Inform each student that they are not to disclose the individual they are describing in the brainstorm. Direct students to pair up and share their brainstorms with their partners. Ask partners to try and guess which celebrity or public figure their partner has described in their brainstorm. Have partner groups discuss how the use of specific and sense words influenced their guess.
Review the stages of the writing process for a descriptive paragraph.
Review prewriting activities for a descriptive paragraph. Explain dominant impression and share examples. Allow students the opportunity to review brainstorms about favorite celebrity or public figure. Have students create a dominent impression for a descriptive paragraph about their favorite celebrity or public figure.
Explainthe relationship between the dominant impression and the topic sentence. Have students practice adding details to the dominant impressions created about their favorite celebrity or public figure. Create an outline for a descriptive paragraph. Show examples of descriptive paragraphs that have time sequence, spatial position, and similar types order.
Have students create a rough draft from the information presented in the outline. In partner groups, have students peer review drafts of the descriptive paragraphs. Have students use the revision checklist as a guide in the peer review sessions. Review transitions for a descriptive paragraph.
Allowstudents to exchange drafts with another student. In the new partner groups, have students proofread each other’s paper.
