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NARRATIVE WRITING With wide eager eyes, the division of teacher education, primary division, paid rapt attention as the lecturer decided to use the role play strategy to provide instruction about narrative writing to us. As young writers, we are sometimes tempted to write what the topic speaks about or addresses. We may sometimes fail to include points that may compliment our narrative pieces and thus our writing may lack the adequate substance or feeling when our readers interact without our text. For this reason, our lecturer used these periods to help us understand how we can be thorough when planning and executing a narrative piece. She pretended to be a grade 3 teacher and after going through the sections of a narrative piece, placed us, the grade 3 students in groups for us to plan our own narrative piece entitle "My Worst Nightmare". But before, she allowed the entire class to plan a story in a clear and efficacious way. We brainstorme...
DESCRIPTIVE WRITING This class session mainly focused on descriptive writing. We learned that descriptive writing is to describe a person, place or thing in such a way that a picture is formed in the reader's mind. We also learned that when one uses descriptive writing to speak about an event, this involves paying close attention to the details by using all of one's five senses. In addition, teaching students to write more descriptively will ameliorate their writing by making it more interesting and engaging to read. Unlike the other types of writing, it was understood that descriptive writing has many characteristics. Primarily, a good descriptive piece includes many vivid sensory details that paints a picture and appeals to all of the reader's senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste when appropriate. This simply means that it helps the reader live vicariously through the writer and any piece of writ...
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