This writing is painting pictures with words. Children need to be keen observers, attentive to word choices and sensory images such as King Tut’s tomb and clusters that Mrs. Ochs’s students used for their descriptive writing. Teaching children about descriptive writing will help them find alternatives for pretty and nice. As they brainstorm lists of words and draw five-sense clusters, they will realize that there are many better alternatives for these overworked words (Tomkins, 2008). According to Hutchinson (2005), it is said that the general characteristics of descriptive writing include: elaborate use of sensory language, rich/vivid/ and lively detail figurative language such as simile, hyperbole, metaphor, symbolism and personification showing, rather than telling through the use of active verbs and precise modifiers.
Response: Sunmi indicated that descriptive techniques play a role in almost every type of sophisticated writing; thus, students need to have concrete skills to describe and create a picture in writing so as to help readers see details. I agree with her opinion. In addition, the students can also build up their vocabulary skills by describing and create a picture.
Hutchinson, E. (2005). Descriptive writing. Costa Mesa, CA: Saddleback Publishing
Tompkins, Gail E. (2008). Teaching writing: Balancing process and product.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson
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