Within this week descriptive writing was the main focus. Enough information was given to clear any misconception or lack of comprehension toward this specific topic. We learnt that descriptive writing entails an in-depth description of people, animals, places, things and events, words are used to appeal to the senses of the reader and adverbs and adjectives must be present. Following this information we were told how we as student teachers should go about teaching descriptive writing. We were taught that it is better to teach students to identify specific bahaviours, name characters and list attributes and we were also told to teach the essence of good word choice and to help with that we were presented with a list of descriptive sensory words. It is evident that students may not grasp the concept at first so we were provided with commonly faced problems in descriptive writing and ways to solve them if the occur. The curriculum which we follow has recently been updated and in it are some new and improved outcomes. Most of us were unaware of this until our lecturer provided us with that information, with that information was provision of a few examples of the outcomes posed in the curriculum. Wholesomely this information was delivered in a simplified way and that aided comprehension. We are pleased with the fact that there was provision of possible problems and their solutions in the case of occurrence strategies to use and few words we can use to teach the use of sensory words. This information is very important especially for pre service teachers and we plan to utilize it well.
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