<p><strong>This pack includes:</strong></p> <ul> <li>10 model/ example/ WAGOLL setting description texts, with pictures. Each text describes a different setting (stormy sea, rainforest, desert, funfair etc).</li> <li>A worksheet to support students to identify the key features within the example texts.</li> <li>A ‘Create Your Own Setting Description’ writing task.</li> <li>A ‘Key Features Checklist’ to aid self/peer/teacher review.</li> </ul> <p><strong>This pack is designed to help students produce powerful, high-quality descriptive writing. It aims to help students to identify and use the following features:</strong></p> <ul> <li>The five senses (see, hear, smell, feel, taste)</li> <li>High-quality vocabulary</li> <li>Figurative language (similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration)</li> <li>Words and phrases to create mood and atmosphere</li> </ul> <p><strong>Background:</strong></p> <p>I decided to create this resource after reading through some stories that my class had written. One thing really stood out to me: a lack of good quality description.</p> <p>How to fix the problem? I knew the first place to start was to provide them with some examples of high-quality descriptive writing. However, it takes a lot of teacher time to find and copy examples from existing texts, or to write new examples from scratch. For this reason, I decided to create a bank of example paragraphs to use myself, and to share with other teachers.</p> <p>Along with the example texts and related worksheet, I have also added a writing task and ‘key features checklist’. This aims to support students to take features from the example texts, and use them in their own writing.</p> <p>These resources could be used in a stand-alone lesson, or as part of a wider unit. By the end of the session(s), students should be able to write a high-quality setting description, packed full of powerful vocabulary and figurative language.</p>

<p><strong>This pack is designed to help students produce powerful, high-quality descriptive writing. It aims to help students to identify and use the following features:</strong></p> <ul> <li>The five senses (see, hear, smell, feel, taste)</li> <li>High-quality vocabulary</li> <li>Figurative language (similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration)</li> <li>Words and phrases to create mood and atmosphere</li> </ul> <p><strong>The pack includes:</strong></p> <ul> <li>10 model/ example/ WAGOLL setting description texts, with pictures. Each text describes a different setting (stormy sea, rainforest, desert, funfair etc).</li> <li>A worksheet to support students to identify the key features within the example texts.</li> <li>A ‘Create Your Own Setting Description’ writing task.</li> <li>A ‘key features checklist’ to aid self/peer/teacher review.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Background:</strong></p> <p>I decided to create this resource after reading through some stories that my class had written. One thing really stood out to me: a lack of good quality description.</p> <p>How to fix the problem? I knew the first place to start was to provide them with some examples of high-quality descriptive writing. However, it takes a lot of teacher time to find and copy examples from existing texts, or to write new examples from scratch. For this reason, I decided to create a bank of example paragraphs to use myself, and to share with other teachers.</p> <p>Along with the example texts and related worksheet, I have also added a writing task and ‘key features checklist’. This aims to support students to take features from the example texts, and use them in their own writing.</p> <p>These resources could be used in a stand-alone lesson, or as part of a wider unit. By the end of the session(s), students should be able to write a high-quality setting description, packed full of powerful vocabulary and figurative language.</p>