Descriptive Writing

Descriptive writing is the first main ELA topic we will be studying.  The point of descriptive writing is to describe the world around us (usually a specific person, place, or thing), using our five senses.  Our five senses are sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.  We will be using a senses chart to organize our descriptive writing.  We will begin with writing simple sentences describing a picture.  We will then move on to writing a paragraph about something we create, which will finally lead us to writing a full essay on a topic (or question) we choose.

Descriptive writing will also be the writing type for the first school wide write.  Some sample questions are:

1. Describe your favourite room in your house.  Make sure to use all your senses when describing the room.
2. Describe the best gift you have ever received.
3. Describe the person you most admire.  This person can be a relative, someone from your community, or even someone famous that you do not know personally.

The school wide write will be marked using a rubric.  You can view the rubric for the first school wide write below (please note that it could change).