Descriptive writing for elementary students poster

Teaching descriptive writing is one easy way to exponentially grow your students as writers. This skill can be applied in every type of writing: expository, poetry, narrative, persuasive…it is so versatile!

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So we want to make sure our students are experts at crafting descriptive, sensory language. I love using visuals to anchor learning in the classroom. Each poster has engaging images with a simple description of the element, along with space for students to add their own examples. These posters are great to use as an anchor chart for your descriptive writing unit.

You can design a fun bulletin board to display the images and use them for reference throughout your lessons. As you teach each descriptive element, let students add their own ideas around each poster using sticky notes. You can also create a small image or packet of the anchor charts to provide for students who need more hands-on access to materials.

Let them glue it into their interactive notebooks. This will help students reference the visual aids consistently, and they can add notes directly on their mini anchor charts. Students can add a text box to the images to add their own examples too! Choose a mentor text with high-quality writing to model each element of descriptive writing.

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Annotate the text, marking parts of speech like adjectives or adverbs, and analyze the language. Have students close their eyes and imagine a picture of the text in their heads. Then let them draw a picture based on the description in the mentor text.