This document provides guidance on teaching descriptive writing. It explains that descriptive writing involves using details and sensory descriptions to help readers visualize people, places, or things. Teaching descriptive writing can improve students' writing by making it more engaging. The document recommends including lessons that develop descriptive writing skills through modeling, sharing literature with good examples, and drawing students' attention to descriptive language. It also provides tips for what makes good descriptive writing, such as using vivid sensory details, figurative language, precise vocabulary, and logical organization.

1. Descriptive Writing
Teaching workshop
By : Mohamed Fathy

2. Descriptive Writing
 The primary purpose of descriptive writing
is to describe a person, place or thing in
such a way that a picture is formed in the
reader's mind. Capturing an event through
descriptive writing involves paying close
attention to the details by using all of your
five senses. Teaching students to write
more descriptively will improve their writing
by making it more interesting and engaging
to read.

3. Why teach Descriptive Writing?
It will help your students' writing
be more interesting and full of
details
It encourages students to use
new vocabulary words
It can help students clarify their
understanding of new subject
matter material

4. How to teach Descriptive
Writing?
Include lessons such
depending on :
Develop descriptive
writing skill through
modeling and the
sharing of quality
literature full of
descriptive writing.
Call students' attention
to
interesting, descriptive
word choices in
classroom writing.
• Using photographs for
encouragement.
• Using “show-me sentences”
handouts as follows.
• Any other online suitable
handouts.

5. includes many vivid sensory details that paint a picture
and appeals to all of the reader's senses of
sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste when appropriate.
often makes use of figurative language such as
analogies, similes and metaphors to help paint the
picture in the reader's mind.
uses precise language. General adjectives, nouns, and
passive verbs do not have a place in good descriptive
writing. Use specific adjectives and nouns and strong
action verbs .
is organized. Some ways to organize descriptive writing
include: chronological (time), spatial (location), and order
of importance. When describing a person, you might
begin with a physical description, followed by how that
person thinks, feels and acts.
Descriptive
Writing
Good
Assessment:
A GOOD descriptive writing :

6. Be careful!!
 Giving your students the right
sources can form another
Dickens!!!