Descriptive writing: Responding to a setting stimulus

In this lesson, we will be looking at how to plan effectively for a setting based descriptive task. We'll look at a range of planning tools to help us generate ideas and organise our material in a way which will have an impact on the reader.

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Descriptive Writing

Responding to a setting stimulus

Q1."A description _______________ of a scene, person or experience." Complete the sentence from the options below.

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Q2.Which of the following linguistic devices would not be commonly found in a descriptive response?

2/5

Q3.What does planning the organisation of your ideas mean? Look at the list below and select the correct response from the criteria we have looked at today.

3/5

Q4.What is the name given to the technique where you section off 5 parts of the image?

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Q5.By choosing one particular detail as a focal point, we tried to expand our writing to include what?

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This quiz includes images that don't have any alt text - please contact your teacher who should be able to help you with an audio description.

Unit quizzes are being retired in August 2023

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Quiz:

Descriptive Writing

Responding to a setting stimulus

Q1."A description _______________ of a scene, person or experience." Complete the sentence from the options below.

1/5

Q2.Which of the following linguistic devices would not be commonly found in a descriptive response?

2/5

Q3.What does planning the organisation of your ideas mean? Look at the list below and select the correct response from the criteria we have looked at today.

3/5

Q4.What is the name given to the technique where you section off 5 parts of the image?

4/5

Q5.By choosing one particular detail as a focal point, we tried to expand our writing to include what?

5/5

Lesson summary: Descriptive writing: Responding to a setting stimulus

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