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Descriptive Writing Checklist

The document provides a checklist for descriptive writing with categories like topic sentences, supporting details, word choice, sensory details, and mechanics. It also lists tools to make writing come alive such as using similes, metaphors, personification, and onomatopoeia.

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Descriptive Writing Checklist

The document provides a checklist for descriptive writing with categories like topic sentences, supporting details, word choice, sensory details, and mechanics. It also lists tools to make writing come alive such as using similes, metaphors, personification, and onomatopoeia.

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Descriptive Writing Checklist

☐ TOPIC SENTENCE: The topic sentence is well-written, correctly


placed, and introduces the topic. The topic sentence “hooks” readers,
pulls them in.

☐ SUPPORTING DETAILS: The paragraph contains 6 or more


“supporting detail” sentences that relate back to the main idea.

☐ WORD CHOICE (DICTION): The paragraph offers vivid adjectives


or phrases that linger or draw pictures in readers’ minds, and the choice
of words used seems accurate, natural, and not forced.

☐ SENSORY DETAILS: The paragraph includes details that appeal to


three or more of the five senses (taste, touch, smell, sound, and/or
sight).

☐ MECHANICS AND GRAMMAR: The paragraph has no


errors in punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.

More Writing Tools: The following tools will help your writing come to life. Please
challenge yourself to use all four.

☐ Simile: a comparison of two unlike things that uses like or as.


Example: The English assignments are as fun as a day at the beach.

☐ Metaphor: a comparison that turns one thing into another (using a form of the verb
“to be.”)
Example: The English assignments are a fun day at the beach.

☐ Personification: giving human qualities to an animal, object, or idea.


Example: The northern wind whispered her secrets to me.

☐ Onomatopoeia: “sound effect” words, words that sound like what they mean.
Example: When we were camping in the Little Yosemite campground, the rustling
leaves kept me awake all night.

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