Descriptive Writing Activities and Practice with Mentor Texts

PRINT & DIGITAL! Struggling to teach descriptive writing? This lesson will help your students flex and strengthen their descriptive writing skills. Students analyze, sketch, write, and review mentor texts and their own writing to really dig into what is needed to create descriptive compositions. More than just worksheets!

What you'll get:

• Print, Google Slide, and PowerPoint versions
• 2 examples of descriptive writing to sketch
• elements of descriptive writing
• “build your toolbox” reference sheet that students can use to collect examples to use all year!
• 2 mentor texts with analysis questions and activities
• revision activity -- critical thinking & offering ways to improve samples of writing
• 3 different descriptive writing tasks
• each descriptive writing task has a self-assessment rubric that asks students to prove their answers by providing evidence from their writing
• suggested answer key

Reasons to love these descriptive writing lessons:

• Teach this writing skill step by step with sketching, mentor texts, revising, practice, and self-assessment
• Print and digital! Ready to use!
• Fantastic for writing workshop, differentiating, sub plans, and tutoring
• Student self-assessment means your students are thinking about their writing and how to strengthen it!
• You will be able to use the rubric with any writing your students complete!

Be sure to check out the preview!

You might be interested in:

⚬ Opinion Writing: This is the Best / or Worst Book in the Universe

⚬ Expository Writing Journal

⚬ Mentor Text: Introductory Paragraphs

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