Descriptive Writing

Here are some links to help you create your descriptive paragraphs.

There are also some short descriptive paragraph examples that you could read for inspiration.

BBC Bitesize

Video Inspiration

What are the main features of descriptive writing? How can you paint a picture with your words?

You can use the tool kit below to help you.

Below is our rubric for descriptive writing that we created together as a class. To enable us to do this, we compared three different descriptive paragraphs, noting the writing features in each. We then ordered the texts from best to worst.

Below is the text examples we used. We used the details in the best of the texts to draw the corresponding picture.