Language Experience
Fun With Creative Writing
By Gayle Knapp
Here’s something to try with your student. When Jennie and I want to work on expanding her ability to write descriptively, one of us finds a picture that strikes our fancy. Jennie’s assignment is to write a description that allows the reader to see the picture in his or her mind. Sometimes we talk about the adjectives needed to describe the scene. We’ll make lists of adjectives that are similar. Then, Jennie goes off to write. At the next session, we work on the descriptions—adding more adjectives, adverbs and phrases as explained in the article on page 4 of “Words” Fall 2006.
By Gayle Knapp
Here’s something to try with your student. When Jennie and I want to work on expanding her ability to write descriptively, one of us finds a picture that strikes our fancy. Jennie’s assignment is to write a description that allows the reader to see the picture in his or her mind. Sometimes we talk about the adjectives needed to describe the scene. We’ll make lists of adjectives that are similar. Then, Jennie goes off to write. At the next session, we work on the descriptions—adding more adjectives, adverbs and phrases as explained in the article on page 4 of “Words” Fall 2006.