Revision: How to Write an Effective Description

This is a complete lesson plan on how to write effective descriptive writing. The focus is to help prepare students for any assessments in creative writing.

This session plan is appropriate to use with students studying at both Key Stages 3 and 4. No other resources are necessary except for students’ own books.

The lesson is compiled of 8 separate slides and are divided as follows:

The eight elements that make descriptive writing effective.
Writing task based on an image.
How to plan a piece of descriptive writing.
Look at an example of descriptive writing.
Writing task based on a different image.
Plenary: Recap the eight ingredients required for descriptive writing.

If students are less confident with: sentence structure; using effective punctuation; figurative language; sentence openers; whole text structure; applying ambitious vocabulary; using the senses in writing - then the session plan could be used over two or three lessons.

A great visually appealing session plan that students really enjoy!