IMPROVING WRITING LESSON
DESCRIBING PLACES:
Pictures of Places

Materials

• Pictures of Places Writing Lesson - Use the printable lesson for your lesson plan, or use as a lesson supplement.

Procedure:

Students should read the lesson, and complete the worksheet. As an option, teachers may also use the lesson as part of a classroom lesson plan.

Excerpt from Lesson:

The extract below describes a place. Read it through carefully.

       The wood was a beautiful place to be. Sunlight slipped through the leaves and twinkled on the ground below. A light breeze played with the trees, whispering and laughing in the branches. Ferns and grasses waved gently about and the tiny tracks of woodland creatures wove in and out of the soft green carpet.  

Now here is the same wood, described in a very different way:

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