Reading and
Writing
Skills
Module 1 Lesson 2
On a separate sheet, complete the table by supplying words or phrases that best
describe the given subjects. Use any of your senses to provide appropriate
descriptions. Then answer the questions that follow.
02
Description
Description
• Gives information of what a person, an object, a
place, or a situation is like.
• Appeals to the reader’s senses; it makes the reader
see, hear, taste, smell or feel the subject.
• Should have concrete and specific details.
The kind of words we used
to describe how your
subject looks, sounds,
feels, smells or even tastes
like are called sensory
languages.
Types of Description
OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION
Where the writer presents impartial Where the writer gives personal
and actual picture of the subject impression of what is observed. This
without biases and excluding is often used in making fiction
personal impression of the subject stories.
like when you give your description
of an experiment in class.
Example of writing genres under descriptive
paragraph:
• Literary analyses
• Descriptive essays
• Business plans
• Laboratory reports
• Research papers
A descriptive paragraph has
concrete and specific details, which
are carefully chosen by a writer to
paint a picture in the mind of the
reader.
Guide Questions
• What does it look like?
• What are its characteristics?
Techniques in Writing a Descriptive
Paragraph
[Link] a Meaningful Subject
[Link] Unique Observations
[Link] the Senses
[Link] Figurative Language
[Link] a Pattern
Description pattern signal words:
Above Around Between In front of Onto
Across Away from Beyond Inside Opposite to
Adjacent to Back of By Into Outside
Against Behind Down Near Over
Along Below Farther Off Throughout
Alongside Beneath Here On To the right
Amidst Beside In On top of Under
A PICTURE IS WORTH A
THOUSAND WORDS
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listening!