The document provides instruction and examples for writing descriptive paragraphs. It explains that a descriptive paragraph describes how something looks, feels, or the impression it gives the reader through sensory details. It provides examples of descriptive paragraphs and activities for students to practice using descriptive language, sensory details, adjectives, and vivid writing.

1. Descriptive Paragraph Basic Writing WTUC

2. What is a descriptive paragraph? Describes how something or someone looks or feels It gives an impression of something Include how the writer feels ‘shows’ the reader Creates a sensory image on the reader’s mind

3. Read Paragraph 54 Samovar Memory, p. 123

4. Describing with the Five Senses Use words that appeal or all of the five senses- Sight Taste Touch Hearing Smell Answers will vary

5. Activity 1, p. 124 Answers will vary

6. Activity 2, p. 124: Answers will vary.

7. Activity 3, pp. 125–129: Paragraph 55, p.125: 1. A subway station. 2. Answers may vary. 3. Sight: broken clock showing 4:30; poster; deep, blue skies; lone palm tree; sapphire waters; smell: smelly staircase; hearing: crying child; two old men are arguing; little noise 4. Present progressive tense (to make the reader feel like he or she is experiencing the description).

8. Paragraph 56, p.126: 1. A tornado. 2. Past tense. Suggested answers: begin, touch, hurl, rip, throw, use, roar, be, can. 3. Sight: descend; swirling clouds; ripped the roof from an old house; uprooted trees and cars. hearing: winds roared like a wild 4. Suggested adjectives: long, slender, swirling, deadly, old, ferocious, wild, delicate (Feeling descriptions will vary.) beast.

9. Paragraph 57, p.128: 1. What Mother did for her rose garden. 2. all of the sentences are necessary. 3. a. She ripped out weeds that might be a danger to the flowers. b. She killed insects.

10. Language Focus, p. 130 Adjectives are important in a descriptive paragraph. An adjective usually answers the question: Which one? [this, that, these, those] What kind? [big, old, yellow, crumpled] How many? [some, few, many, two] How much? [enough, bountiful, less, more]

11. Use adjectives in the correct place Adjectives come before the nouns they modify/describes Adjectives appear after a linking verb. The teacher is intelligent.

12. Activity 4, pp. 131–132: 1. C 2. on the old blackboard 3. a long letter 4. C 5. a great place 6. C 7. C 8. C 9. an excellent example 10. deep green feathers

13. Activity 5, p. 132: Answers will vary.

14. Activity 6, pp. 132-133: Answers will vary.

15. Activity 7, pp. 134-135: 1. Paragraph 57: the vital quality of the Blue River; Paragraph 58: the polluted quality of the Blue River 2. The Blue River is attractive and full of life (important, fresh, clear, wide, colorful, abundant, beautiful, tall, shade, green, healthy, wild, sweet, grassy) 3. The Blue River is unappealing and polluted (sluggish, brown, few, scrawny, limited, dirty, old, gray, dying, wild, polluted) 4. abundant/limited, green/gray, healthy/dying, sweet/polluted

16. Activity 8, pp. 135–137: 1. Paragraph 58: The Blue River Paragraph 59: The Blue River 2. Paragraph 58: the river is clean and beautiful “fresh, clear water …wide variety of fish…shade trees…grassy banks” 3. Paragraph 59: the river is dirty with “sluggish brown water …few fish or plants…scrawny trout…old trees are gray and dying…polluted river” 4. 58: fresh clear water 59: sluggish brown water 58: variety of fish 59: few fish 58: green, healthy shade trees. 59: gray dying trees

17. Activity 9, p. 137: Answers will vary.

18. Activity 11, p. 139-143: Paragraph 61, p.139: 1. b 2. a 3. 15 4. carefully arranged books, a few newspapers, an old television with nothing on it, peaceful beach scene 5. the left side of the room with the television could be described in greater detail.

19. Paragraph 62, p. p.141: 1. d 2. a 3. a) the tablet is in her left hand b) the statue stands on a 150 foot tall pedestal, c) the torch is in her raised right hand

20. Activity 12, p. 144: Paragraph 63, p.144: objects : office, cheeks, neck, blouse, world comma errors: big, beautiful, … earrings,