To produce a good descriptive essay, it is also necessary to master some specific linguistic forms. In the first place, all those expressions representing spatial relations will be exercised, such as prepositions (not limited to the short list of monosyllabic ones, but also including forms like behind, above, beside, etc.), prepositional syntagms and adverbs. The […]
Activities to organize ideas Children learn slowly to organize information within a description. To help them, activities can be carried out in which the planning of the essay is partly guided, so as to be able to acquire these linguistic-conceptual skills gradually. First of all, it is important that the description activities have a clear […]
The perception of space is a basic cognitive function, which emerges very early in human development and which is already fully consolidated within a few years. The ability to describe space, on the other hand, grows very slowly and even at ten years old children show significant differences with adults in rendering spatial relationships, both […]
Descriptive essays are those in which a representation of a space predominates, which may contain objects or even characters who perform actions. In the latter case, it is not easy to draw a clear demarcation with respect to narrative essays, but in a essay with descriptive dominance there is no real plot, a thread that […]