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• When we watch a movie, we see exactly what the movie-makers want us to see.

• When we read a story we make our own mind movies. We picture the setting, the characters, and action based on the words the writer gives us.

• Good writers add details about how a character looks or behaves and how the setting looks, sounds, feels, and smells to help the readers make a mind movie.

Close your eyes…

and think about WATER.

Open your eyes…and think:

Did you see a swimming pool? the ocean? bath water? a hose? a sink of water? rain? “Water” could describe

any of these things and more. A writer must use details to describe the water so that the reader sees in

his or her mind what the writer intended.

Use detailsdetails to describe to your partner what you seesee, hearhear, feelfeel,

etc. in the setting of water that you imagined.

Can your partner guess your “water?”

Can you guess his/hers?

Look at the picture that your teacher gives you. Describe details about the setting to a friend without telling the setting.

• What do you see?• What is happening?• What do you hear?• What stands out?

• What else can you describe? Can your friend guess the setting?