Writing Workshop: Descriptive Essay

Throughout this unit, you’ve read examples of descriptive writing about nature. You also wrote a descriptive essay about an object or place in nature that is important to you. 

In this lesson, you will revise and edit your essay to produce a final, polished draft. Keep the elements listed below in mind as you compose your final draft:

• a central idea or dominant impression that comes across throughout the writing
• a clear organizational structure
• facts and examples to support the writer’s ideas
• vivid descriptive details that appeal to the senses and create a “verbal picture”

Objectives

• Use revising and editing strategies to compose the final draft of a description
• Use vocabulary words correctly in writing
• Use varied sentence types in writing

Key Words

• description

2 Pages Minimum