Exploring various genres with your students provides them with a variety of opportunities to express themselves and test their writing talents. Recently, I enjoyed using Thomas Kinkade's paintings (created a PowerPoint of selected winter paintings) to teach descriptive writing with LES fifth graders. We viewed the beautiful paintings and searched our senses to write descriptive paragraphs about his paintings. We charted the things we could hear, see, smell as well as how we felt, as if we were part of the painting. The students wrote some super descriptive sentences. Share one of your favorite genre writing activities.
3 comments:
The Thomas Kinkades writing lesson you did with my class was the best descriptive writing lesson that completely engages them with understanding the concept of what is descriptive writing.
The pictures provided so much to write about that I think it did help them connect to description. I enjoyed designing and teaching that lesson. It was fun! And writing should be fun!
I have really enjoyed reading your blog. I understand what you mean about giving the students art work to prompt their descriptive thoughts down on paper. Something so simple yet so fun and inspirational.
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