Descriptive Picture Writing

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Part 1: Look Closely

WALT: We Are Learning To notice and describe details in a picture.

Success criteria: I can use my senses, precise adjectives and interesting verbs.

Picture prompt: Study the picture carefully. Imagine that you are standing inside the scene.

1. Tick the senses you could use to describe this picture.

sight

sound

smell

touch

taste

2. Write three precise adjectives to describe something in the picture.

3. Write two strong verbs that could describe movement in the picture.

Support: Use a word bank if needed: bright, gloomy, enormous, tiny, rustling, sparkling, hurried, drifted. Challenge yourself to choose more exact words.

Part 2: Plan Your Description

WALT: We Are Learning To organise ideas before writing.

Success criteria: I can describe the foreground, background and atmosphere of the scene.

4. What can you see in the foreground? Add a detail about colour, shape or size.

5. What can you see in the background? Add a detail that helps create a picture in the reader’s mind.

6. What mood or atmosphere does the picture create? Explain why.

Support: Choose a mood: peaceful, mysterious, exciting, lonely, cheerful. You may plan your ideas using words or labelled notes.

Part 3: Write Your Description

WALT: We Are Learning To write a vivid descriptive paragraph.

Success criteria: I can use sensory language, varied sentence beginnings, precise vocabulary and correct punctuation.

7. Write a descriptive paragraph about the picture. Include at least three sensory details and one simile.

8. Edit your writing. Tick each feature you have included.

An interesting opening

Precise adjectives and strong verbs

Sensory details

A simile or comparison

Capital letters and full stops

Extension: Improve one sentence by adding a powerful word or a comparison.

Differentiation: Use sentence starters such as In the distance..., Beside the... and It felt as though.... Learners ready for a challenge can vary sentence lengths and include personification.