LA

Writing 

Visualization

We already know that reading books with fantastic description causes us to visualize a vivid movie in our heads!

Transferring our playground scenario visualizations to paper!

How can we add description to our writing so readers of our writing get to watch a detailed movie in their heads?  We used a group carousel brainstorming strategy to find out how...

Learning through discovery....adding description to our sentences

Where should description be added?

·      To the parts of the sentence that are not descriptive.

·      To the boring words.

·      To the parts where punctuation is needed – capitalization, exclamation, and commas.

·      To the parts of the sentence that need more adjectives and adverbs.

When should we add description?

·      When the sentence doesn’t pop out.

·      When the sentence is dull.

·      When the sentence doesn’t make sense because there is not enough detail.

·      When there is not enough detail to picture the sentence in your mind.

What you don’t do when adding description:

·      Change the nouns.

·      Add too much description to one noun and not the other nouns.

·      Change what the sentence is about because then it would be a whole different sentence.

·      Change too many of the original words because it might not make sense afterwards.

·      Use random words that don’t fit the original idea.

·      Add bland words.

·      Turn the sentence into a run-on sentence.

How do you make a sentence more descriptive?

·      Add words where detail is needed.

·      Add adverbs.

·      Change the boring words to juicy words.

·      Add verbs.

·      Use similes.

·      Re-read the sentence after you write it to see where you can add more description.

·      By using a thesaurus.

 Character writing

During a writing lesson in 2012, our class was working on describing a character.

We blogged our character's names below: