How to Write An Essay: What Is a Descriptive Essay?…

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What's inside this resource

Resource Overview

The "How to Write an Essay: What Is a Descriptive Essay? - FLASH-PC" resource is ideal for teaching the art of crafting descriptive essays. It's designed expressly for students between grades 5 and 8, focusing on Language Arts and essay writing.

Features

Curriculum-Focused Content: The resource includes reading passages structured with pre-reading and post-reading questions. This method fosters reflective learning while conserving teaching time.
Printables: Fun, informative printables help ensure concept retention.
Vocabulary Flashcards: Provided flashcards assist in mastering vocabulary, promoting clear expression when formulating descriptions.
Ideas Depiction via Graphic Organizers: These visual tools enhance mental organization skills, enabling learners to logically group information before composing a descriptive essay.

All these attributes make the learning process more immersive and engaging for the student.

Educational Standards Alignment

The resource is developed in accordance with Common Core State Standards ensuring compatibility with respected education guidelines. Moreover, it considers cognition at varying levels as explained by Bloom's Taxonomy thus providing a more flexible response to individual academic capabilities.

Digital Classroom Integration

The PC Software version allows hassle-free integration into your digital classroom framework. This lends itself well towards small-group studies or full-class lectures too turning it into an effective homework assignment tool as well enhancing independent study opportunity thereby making classroom sessions more engaging.

In Conclusion,

This product offers manifold benefits from easing lesson planning to efficient delivery of quality education making it an indispensable teaching aid targeting skill empowerment leaving your students considerably ahead academically.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Students will distinguish between objective and subjective descriptive essays.
Students will plan a descriptive essay using the Five Senses Graphic Organizer or Spider Map before drafting.
Students will write an introductory paragraph containing a topic sentence and thesis sentence, following the modeled example.
Students will use vivid, sensory language and avoid storytelling or persuasive elements, per the 'Writing Watchdog' tips.

Teaching tips

Verify the interactive .exe/.swf lesson still runs before assigning it, since it is built on Adobe Flash, discontinued in December 2020.
Use the printable PDF versions of the reading passage and graphic organizers as a fallback if the Flash-based interactive lesson cannot be run.
Have students complete the Five Senses Graphic Organizer before drafting, since the reading passage explicitly recommends it as a prewriting step.
Use the included 4-level rubric (Ideas, Organization, Style, Conventions) to assess the final descriptive-essay draft.

Skills covered

Descriptive-essay planning — students use the Five Senses Graphic Organizer or Spider Map to gather sensory details before writing.
Objective vs. subjective description — students distinguish factual, sense-based description from writer-opinion description using the passage's police-report example.
Introduction and thesis-statement writing — students draft a topic sentence and thesis sentence following the modeled paragraph.
Sensory descriptive vocabulary — students are prompted, via a 'Writing Watchdog' character, to use vivid, sense-based language.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

What is the difference between an objective and a subjective descriptive essay, according to the reading passage?

An objective essay describes what any observer would see (color, shape, size) without the writer's feelings, using a police accident report as the example; a subjective essay relies on the writer's five senses and personal impressions.

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

CCSS.W.5.5 — With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1–3 up to and including grade 5 on page 29.)
CCSS.W.6.5 — With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1–3 up to and including grade 6 on page 53.)