Students combine their cumulative learning of sensing verbs, prepositional phrases, and comparisons to co-construct and independently draft a descriptive paragraph about an outback landscape, utilizing a multi-tiered writing frame.
Students learn how prepositional phrases give information about 'where' and 'when' events occur, practicing adding them to simple sentences containing sensing verbs to build descriptive detail.
Students investigate sensing verbs related to the five senses, identifying how the author uses them to share how natural elements feel during drought, and brainstorming sensory details about the outback.