For today's writing assignment, have your student(s) describe an object. This assignment can be done anywhere and the object being described can be living or not.
Description is a key element in good writing, especially fiction. It provides vivid pictures in the mind of the reader. Describing things well is a valuable writing skill. This exercise can be short or long and done over and over again. Practice will only help your young writer(s) improve.
Instruct your student(s) to select an object to describe. Then, have them sit with paper and pencil and, after some observation, write a description. Don't worry about complete sentences, simply instruct the student(s) to write anything that comes to mind regarding the object. One word or complete sentences are acceptable, as many as possible. They should write until they cannot think of anything else to say about the selected object.
EXAMPLE: I am looking at my dog, asleep on a bed. Following is my descriptive writing exercise:
White and furry. Peaceful. She breathes with rhythmic rising and lowering of the belly. Her hair is clean and shaggy. Perky ears appear as if she is listening, yet on she sleeps. Black nose and white eyelashes. Her lips are black, too. Relaxed. Legs crossed in back, on her side.
Later, if you want, you could have your student(s) take their descriptive writing and turn it into a sensible, creative paragraph describing the object selected.
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