Note For Tutors

Note for Tutors • The following slides could be used over several registration periods. • Display slide one, as a class students should try to match up the descriptive technique with the example • Slide two asks students to apply these descriptive techniques to an image – ask students to share their ideas and discuss • Slide three and four introduces students to different ways to start a sentence ask students to contribute with their own sentences using each start • Slide five asks the students to write a descriptive paragraph using the techniques they have looked at recently • Slide six is an opportunity for peer marking

Descriptive Techniques

Descriptive Techniques • • • • • • 

Simile Metaphor Alliteration Personification Adjectives Onomatopoeia

• Flaming, fiery fireworks • The fireworks exploded in the air like gunfire. • Bang, crack, fizz. • The firework screamed as it flew into the sky. • He was a firework waiting to explode.

Try to think of a sentence using each of the descriptive techniques below for the image. • • • • • • 

Simile Metaphor Alliteration Personification Adjectives Onomatopoeia E . g : The bed stood in the corner like a skeleton

Varying Sentence Openings

Varying Your Sentence Openings • Begin with a preposition (in, on, behind, before etc…) – In the lounge Lisa was …

• Your turn, write a complete sentence beginning with a preposition: • Begin with a verb – Feeling sleepy, Matt lay down …

• Your turn, write a complete sentence beginning with a verb: 

Varying Your Sentence Openings • Begin with an adverb (silently, hastily, patiently, laboriously etc) – Instantly, the cats jumped onto …

• Your turn, write a complete sentence beginning with an adverb: • Begin with an adjective • Cold and weary, the climbers pitched into … • Your turn, write a complete sentence beginning with an adjective: 

Applying the Skills

Imagine … • You are approaching the house … • You must write a detailed paragraph describing the house as you approach it • Try to include: – Sentence variation – Alliteration – Interesting and engaging adjectives – At least one simile

Peer Marking • Swap books with a partner. • Read their work carefully and score them according to the scores below: – Starting a sentence with a preposition (2 points) – Starting a sentence with a verb (2 points) – Starting a sentence with an adverb (2 points) – Starting a sentence with an adjective (2 points) – Alliteration (2 points) – Interesting and engaging adjectives (1 point) – Simile (2 point) – Onomatopoeia (1 point)