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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Descriptive Language

REMINDER

  • Encourage your classmates to share their thoughts
  • Mistakes are good. We learn from them

TODAY'S OBJECTIVE

  • Learn new vocabulary
  • Expand our knowledge of descriptive language
  • How to add telling and showing sentences in creating our original fairy tale writing

DESCRIPTIVE LANGUAGE

Written information that helps someone imagine a scene they didn't witness

CLEVER

Skilled at accomplishing things

TELLING SENTENCE

A sentence that informs you or tells you something

SHOWING SENTENCE

Compliments a telling sentence, describing more information to paint a picture in the readers mind

Writers live in the world of their stories and add tiny bits of descriptions of characters, setting and objects

Today, we are going to try this technique. You will be adding showing sentence(s) to illustrate your telling sentence

QUESTIONS TO THINK ABOUT

Why is it important for the writer to use showing sentences?

What evidence supports your idea?