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Utilizing Visual Images for Creating and Conveying Setting in Written Text

Setting is an essential element of literature for both readers and writers. The aim of this lesson is to help young writers effectively communicate the concept of setting in narrative writing to their readers through the use of visual image prompts (photographs). The students are first asked to describe the setting of their photograph. Then, through the process of sharing, attempting to replicate the images through drawing after hearing their partner’s description, and conferencing with a partner, students decide if their word choice, literal and inferential descriptions, and details accurately conveyed the setting to their audience. This lesson is meant to be an introduction to setting, which could be followed up with more intensive instruction through a literature unit or writing assignment.

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Doodle Splash Student Interactive: Students use this interactive to recreate a preexisting image.

From Theory to Practice

Our students live in a world where information comes to them in visual and auditory form much more frequently than in written form. Thus it is not surprising to see evidence that they sometimes have difficulty making the connection, via imagination, between written word and the experience that it represents. Students have difficulty telling about or drawing accurate pictures of the setting of stories they have read. They have even more difficulty creating their own description without lapsing into fuzzy abstractions and clichés. Photographs can become subject matter for talking about and writing as well as exemplars for writing. This lesson allows students to explore setting through photography and explain their reasoning and connections.

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Common Core Standards

This resource has been aligned to the Common Core State Standards for states in which they have been adopted. If a state does not appear in the drop-down, CCSS alignments are forthcoming.

State Standards

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Creative Writing – Describing Setting – 5 senses

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22 February 2018

Descriptive writing lesson which focuses on using the 5 senses to describe images.

Prompts use of metaphor, similes and personification.

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