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Descriptive Writing (Grades 4-8) [Paperback]

Tara Mccarthy (Author)

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Publication Date: July 1, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0590209329 | ISBN-13: 978-0590209328

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Develop descriptive writing skills using great activities, models, and reproducibles. Students will learn the steps to presenting their ideas in an orderly way, supporting their ideas with essential facts, and directing their writing to a specific audience.

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Develop descriptive writing skills using great activities, models, and reproducibles. Students will learn the steps to presenting their ideas in an orderly way, supporting their ideas with essential facts, and directing their writing to a specific audience.

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About the Author

Tara McCarthy, an author who lives in Woodstock, NY, has written several books for Scholastic Teaching Resources. Her other titles include Teaching Literary Elements, Teaching Genre, The Middle Ages, Multicultural Myths and Legends, Multicultural Fables and Fairy Tales, 150 Thematic Writing Activities, and Literature-Based Geography.

Product Details

Reading level: Ages 9 and up
Paperback: 64 pages
Publisher: Scholastic (July 1, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0590209329
ISBN-13: 978-0590209328
Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 5.4 ounces
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,083,980 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Descriptive writing is that domain of writing that develops images through the use of precise sensory words and phrases, and through devices such as metaphor and the sounds of words. Read the first page

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
descriptive writing techniques, distribute the reproducible, chalkboard list, sensory words, writing folders, telling sentence, descriptive paragraph, ask partners

Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Animal Poems by Ladybird Books in Back Matter
Science and Technology (Aspects of Britain) by Central Office of Information on page 2

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