Decriptive writing requires vocabulary to offer specific information, sensory images, metaphors and similes. For English learners, Tompkins suggests words-brainstorming to use during the writing process at least twice-during prewriting and again during revising (p. 222). Creating five-senses clusters, listing attribues, crafting comparisons can enhance the descriptive features in writing. When we do the words-brainstorming, a site gives you an idea how to expand students' works bank (http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/tips/paragrap/describe.html#L1). It categorized descriptive words in several groups. In accordance with the writing, a teacher with children can make a word wall chart to use.
As Kyoungchun pointed out, descriptive writing is like painting pictures with words. Accordingly students should be able to manage a bank of words to withdraw whenever they need to write more vividly and livelily. With this regard, teachers should offer more activities to expand their vacabulary.
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