Considering strategies for refining and editing your descriptive writing
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can understand how to refine my work in clear and identifiable ways.
Key learning points
- Free writing is designed to help you unleash your creativity.
- Revising is where you look at or consider again a piece of writing in order to correct or improve it.
- In order to evoke an emotional response from the reader, you need to carefully consider the words you use.
- Accurate spelling, punctuation and grammar is essential to help your reader understand your writing.
Keywords
Creativity - The ability to produce or use original and unusual ideas.
Evoke - To bring or recall (a feeling, memory, or image) to the conscious mind..
Rewrite - The process of rewriting sentences, adding, dropping or reframing ideas and choosing more precise words.
Ambitious - It needs a lot of skill and effort to be successful.
Edit - The process of making technical corrections to a piece of writing.
Common misconception
That you always have to plan before a piece of creative writing.
While a plan is very useful, and should be used in most cases, sometimes free writing can be a way of unleashing creativity that can then be revised.
Teacher tip
You could ask the students to peer-assess their edited version once they have edited their own to show them that it's often much easier to identify errors in other people's work.
Equipment
Access to dictionaries is beneficial for this lesson - either physical copies or online.
Licence
Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What do you need at the start of every sentence?
Q2.Which piece of punctuation belongs at the end of a sentence?
Q3.Where does the apostrophe need to go in this sentence: 'Marys fingers stretched towards the branches.'?
Q4.Which of the following words is a synonym for 'bad'?
Q5.If something is ambitious then it is .
Q6.Where does the semicolon need to go in this sentence: 'The bees hummed and buzzed the birds swooped and twittered.'?
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Free writing means .
Q2.Creativity means .
Q3.Revising a piece of writing is where you .
Q4.Which out of the following words is the most ambitious?
Q5.Where should the comma(s) go in this sentence: 'The flowers which had just started to bloom smelled divine.'?
Q6.Which word is the correct homophone for this sentence: 'Mary stared at the flowers and gorgeous hues.'
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