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Descriptive Writing Lesson Plan

The lesson plan is for a 40-minute writing lesson for a whole class of 20 students. The goal is for students to create a short descriptive paragraph using vivid language to "show" rather than just "tell". The teacher will provide example passages, lead an activity where students generate descriptive words for an angry character, model writing a descriptive paragraph, and give students guided and individual practice writing their own descriptive paragraphs. Resources include example passages and a whiteboard. Assessment will be the students' descriptive writing pieces.

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Descriptive Writing Lesson Plan

The lesson plan is for a 40-minute writing lesson for a whole class of 20 students. The goal is for students to create a short descriptive paragraph using vivid language to "show" rather than just "tell". The teacher will provide example passages, lead an activity where students generate descriptive words for an angry character, model writing a descriptive paragraph, and give students guided and individual practice writing their own descriptive paragraphs. Resources include example passages and a whiteboard. Assessment will be the students' descriptive writing pieces.

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LESSON PLANNING TEMPLATE Writing

Date: 26/05/2015

Student group: Whole Class

Supervising Teacher:

School:

Duration of the lesson: 40 minutes

Class size: 20

Title of lesson/activity: Show dont tell


Intended Learning Outcomes:
Students will create a short descriptive paragraph
Prior Learning and Experiences:
Weekend writing and other writing activities
Lesson:
Group (15 minutes)
Establish the goal to students, make it clear to them that they will be focusing on using
descriptive language in their writing to show or create an imagine in the readers mind
Read example pieces of how writers have shown instead of just told (See
attachment)
Do an example with the students ask them to come up with descriptive words or
phrases that will describe an angry character imagine someone really angry, what do
you see? Allow students to get up and roam around the room, pretending to be an angry
character
Gather students back down, write the descriptive words/phrases students have come up
with on the board
Model writing a paragraph using the words/phrases use think-aloud strategy
E.g. Instead of writing He was really angry you could write, He was so furious that
his face went bright red. As he stormed up closer to me I could almost see the steam
coming out of his ears!
Guided Practice (5 minutes):
Students each get their jotter out and write a descriptive paragraph about an angry
character using the words/phrases on the board
Individual (15 minutes):
Students are to think of a sentence or topic, brainstorm words/phrases and write their
own descriptive paragraph
Resources, Materials and Organization:
Show dont tell example
Whiteboard
Assessment:
Descriptive writing piece

Tel Show
l
I missed
the bus.

I raced down the road,


wildly waving my hands,
and yelling, Stop, stop,
but the bus rumbled on
down the road without even
slowing down.

I was
I felt a lump form in my
scared as I
throat as I glanced up at
walked
the blackened, broken,
towards the windows of the old house.
haunted
The sound of eerie,
house.
creaking hinges, like the
kind youd hear from rusty
old playground equipment,
made me cringe and
trembled as I slowly
crossed the shadowed yard

towards the broken-down


building.
I was cold.

My teeth chattered as I
blew warm breath on my
numb fingers.

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