Teaching Techniques: Teaching Descriptive Writing through Visualization and the Five Senses
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This article presents a visualization technique that uses the five senses to help learners generate ideas and details for descriptive writing. Students analyze sensory language in a vivid text, connect it to personal memories, organize observations in a chart, and use peer discussion to draft and revise a descriptive paragraph or essay.
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Katherine Carter
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English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 2
This issue features articles on using applied theater to engage adolescent English learners in literacy, developing student tutoring programs, and helping students organize oral discourse. Other pieces offer techniques for teaching noun position and descriptive writing...