Writing: Show Don't Tell

We jumped into narrative writing this week with a refresher of what it looks like to "Show Not Tell". We started with some fun examples:

Then made some generalizations about what good authors did to Show Not Tell in their writing:

Then we put these strategies to work using this prompt:

We made great lists of the kinds of things authors write in order to show emotion without being explicit. Here's our posters about SHOW DON'T TELL: