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Education: Language Arts Mentor Texts For Forms of Writing K-8

Descriptive Writing

Descriptive writing is the clear description of people, places, objects, or events using appropriate details. An effective description will contain sufficient and varied elaboration of details to communicate a sense of the subject being described. Below is a selection of children's stories that provide an example of narrative writing that are available through Lakehead University Library.  Click on the title to determine the location and availability. 

A Selection of Children's Books that Model Descriptive Writing