Descriptive Writing: Journey through the dark forest: 1-4 lesson scheme and image prompts

This works so well across the age range, but especially with my GCSE students. It summarises what descriptive writing is, offers the students lots of interesting and varied vocabulary, scaffolds a sample introductory paragraph and sets a structured writing challenge: describe a journey through the dark forest. Students can extend themselves further by giving their writing a Gothic or a Fantasy slant to it. Images included in the pack help them to achieve this. There is also a two sided worksheet of image prompts and wider vocabulary combinations, encouraging more adventurous use of nouns, compound adjectives, verbs and adverbials. Would also be ideal cover or revision work for students already familiar with this style of writing.