Students have difficulty with descriptive writing.
They tend to use very general terms in describing, and they believe that if they know what they mean, the reader will understand too . This activity is designed to allow students to improve their descriptive writing skills, by collecting information from a pictorial source and describing the picture in detailed, clear and concise language. Students will also be familiar with the process of brainstorming as a prewriting strategy. Students will work in pairs to create museum catalog entries from a variety of pictures in a Museum and will publish the catalog. Each catalog entry will include a suggested title of the picture and a complete description of the picture.