Robot Drawing with Descriptive Writing
I don't know about your students, but my students always struggle with adding enough detail to their writing. We model adding details a lot during the school year. One of my favorite activities is pairing a drawing with descriptive writing. In this activity (It is included in the week-long mentor text lesson, Melia and Jo) students begin by drawing a robot with as many details as they can think of.
After they have finished with their drawing they begin writing a descriptive paragraph about their drawing. They need to keep in mind that someone else is going to be reading their descriptive paragraph and attempting to draw their robot by following the description.
Finally, they will exchange their paragraph with a partner and each attempt to draw the other's robot based on the details in their writing.
Here is an example of one my daughter and I did. This is the robot I drew.
Then I wrote this descriptive paragraph, trusting that I gave enough detail to help her be able to draw the exact same robot. Notice I added a few little things when I was checking over my writing and comparing it to my drawing. This is a good practice for your students as well. They need to get in the habit of going back and re-reading what they have written in order to edit their papers.
Finally, this is the drawing of the robot that my daughter completed based on my descriptive paragraph. Pretty close, huh?
You can check out this project here on TPT.
Or check out this week-long mentor text Melia and Jo.
