1.3 Writer's Workshop: Descriptive Writing
Descriptive Writing Defined
Feast your eyes on the video below to review descriptive writing.
Descriptive text transports the reader or viewer. By engaging the senses (sight, smell, taste, sound, touch) through imagery and using strong descriptions through figurative language (simile, metaphor, alliteration), writers bring places to life.
When reading and viewing descriptive text, you explored brilliant examples of writing that not only transported you to places, but helped you to feel what the writer felt about each place. Now it is your turn to create descriptive text. Where you will take us?