Creative Writing

Today’s lesson objectives are: To practise techniques that will improve creative writing To understand how using the 5 senses can improve your writing 8.W.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or  events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and  well-structured event sequences. d. Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to capture the action and convey experiences and events.

Today, we’re looking at Setting We’re about to look at a historical photo from the northwest; we are looking at Seattle. When it comes up, I’d like you to write down one thing that you think that nobody else in the room will see in that picture. I’ll leave you to look at it for 1 minute, in silence, while you take it all in. Then I’d like to see what you’ve written down…. If you write something that no-one else does, there’s a prize.

English and Media Teaching Schemes

Sight Taste Sound Touch Smell One thing that authors do when they write pieces of descriptive writing is use the 5 senses: Sight Taste Sound What are they? Touch Smell

We’re going to explore how we can add these different senses to your creative writing, in order to improve your piece.

We’ll start by……… listening! Look carefully at the picture, whilst we sit in silence. I want you to imagine that there is a volume button on the picture that I am about to turn up. Listen very carefully and when you think of sounds that you can hear, put your hand up. I also need one volunteer to write the sounds down on the board

English and Media Teaching Schemes

Now we’ll try to imagine what we can feel Look carefully at the picture, whilst we sit in silence. This time, I want you to imagine that you are standing on the bottom of the picture and this scene is in front of you. When you think of what you might be able to feel, put your hand up to contribute

English and Media Teaching Schemes

English and Media Teaching Schemes Using our ideas, we are going to have a go at setting the scene. We want to create this picture with words…… English and Media Teaching Schemes

English and Media Teaching Schemes REMEMBER - use adjectives with your nouns. - use adverbs with your verbs - use similes and metaphors to make the writing interesting. English and Media Teaching Schemes

Pay particular attention to your use of the senses. Over to you…. I would like you to continue to write about this scene from where we have started. Pay particular attention to your use of the senses. You have 10 minutes

English and Media Teaching Schemes

Today’s lesson objectives were: To practise techniques that will improve creative writing To understand how using the 5 senses can improve your writing 8.W.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or  events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and  well-structured event sequences. d. Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to capture the action and convey experiences and events. Modified from sharemylesson.com