Internet Resources

 

• Artistic Elements: Exploring Art Through Descriptive Writing: A lesson from ReadWriteThink for descriptive writing. http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/artistic-elements-exploring-through-318.html

• Writing with Writers: A site from Scholastic that walks students through the writing process for descriptive writing. http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/diary/

• Descriptive Writing: A list of activities and sites to use to support writing a description from the Web English Teacher. http://www.webenglishteacher.com/descriptive.html

Suggested Audio and Video Resources: Discovery Education Streaming

• Search for Discovering Language Arts: Grades 03-05: Writing (clip on Prewriting Skills)

• Search for Figurative Language: Polar Penguins

• Search for Writing Strategies (clip on Descriptive Words: All About Dogs)