Descriptive Writing Unit | Monster Activities | Halloween Writing

If you are looking to engage your students with fun writing prompts this Elementary Descriptive Writing Unit is exactly what you need! Get your students excited about descriptive writing by introducing this monster activities writing unit. Your students will love that they get to draw their own monster and then complete a descriptive writing activity based on their creation! Students will learn to use descriptive words in their writing with the help of the included Powerpoint and supporting descriptive writing unit materials. They will also receive an example of how these fun writing prompts monster activities could look with an included teacher model before starting their own descriptive writing piece. This descriptive writing unit will truly work on not only their descriptive writing skills but their writing stamina as they write a 5-8 paragraph descriptive essay on their monster. 

Elementary Descriptive Writing Unit includes: 

• A day-by-day pacing guide (8 days total)
• A descriptive writing mini-lesson via PPT (29 slides- with student interactive worksheet)
• A teacher example (writing and drawing)
• A fun monster activities art project built into the writing unit
• Descriptive writing guide for students
• Rubric
• Reflection Guide
• Peer Evaluation
• Bulletin Board banner
• Descriptive writing anchor chart
• Compare/contrast worksheets (2)

This descriptive writing unit comes complete with a day by day writing plan. It takes about 7-8 days to complete depending on your writing block schedule. I have taught descriptive writing using these monster activities for many years! Teaching writing can be very tricky for elementary aged students, but this is a fun and entertaining way to teach descriptive writing skills. Your students will be so engaged!

Note: The purchase of this resource is good for use in TWO teachers’ classrooms.

See What Other Teachers are Saying. . .

⭐ I love this resource and my students loved it as well. I will be using this every year to teach descriptive writing. 

⭐ This is such an engaging activity for the students. They worked on their descriptive details and had fun creating at the same time.

⭐ This was organized, helpful, and engaging for my special ed students. They had a great time completing the tasks independently and together. THANK YOU!

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Catherine