Describe the Picture: Spring Writing Prompts

Look closely at four spring scenes and write complete sentences about the details you can see. Each colour picture has ruled writing space.
Grades
Grades 1–5
Pages
5
File type
PDF

Updated Apr 24, 2023

Subject
Creative Writing, Writing, ELA
Resource types
Worksheets
Ontario expectations
D2.1 — draft short

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About this resource

-This product provides children with the opportunity to observe an information-rich image related to spring and then record their observations in a complete text describing the image.

-By engaging in such activities, children develop their observation and description skills while at the same time cultivating their creative thinking, as they are required to compose a text in a complete form.

-The pictures are child-friendly and are in colour.

-The pictures can be printed in large size so that they can be displayed to the whole class or posted on the pinboard.

For helping students describe the pictures you can teach them to use the sensory language strategy. For that, you might find the following products helpful

Sensory Language: Poster 2

What is Sensory Language (Writing Activities)

Sensory Language: Descriptive Strategy

Sensory Language: Poster 1

Sensory Language: Roll and tell! (A rolling die game with task cards)

Additional activities for awakening childrens' creativity:

Awakening creativity 1

Awakening creativity 2

Awakening creativity 3

Awakening creativity 4

Additionally, I offer Spring, Winter, Summer and Fall/Autumn sets of vocabulary words that you can find here:

Summer Vocabulary Part 1

Summer Vocabulary Part 2

Fall/Autumn Vocabulary Part 1

Fall/Autumn Vocabulary Part 2

Spring Vocabulary Part 1

Spring Vocabulary Part 2

Winter: Vocabulary (word-wall)

Also, I offer POSTERS related to the 4 seasons

Seasons (4 A4 posters)

The 4 seasons (A4 poster)

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Observe an image and record those observations in a complete-sentence written description
  • Organize visible details into a written description

Teaching tips

  • Before writing, distinguish visible details from guesses about what might be happening.

Skills covered

  • Sentence construction — turn observed actions and settings into complete descriptive sentences.

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Ontario curriculum

Ontario curriculum expectations

Ontario expectations

  • D2.1 — draft short, simple texts of various forms and genres, including personal narratives, persuasive texts, and procedural texts, using a variety of media, tools, and strategies

Core concepts

  • Observation writing
  • Descriptive writing
  • Image-based prompt

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