Craft The Scene

Worksheet Description

The “Show Don’t Tell” worksheet is a writing practice tool designed to help students enhance their narrative skills by focusing on descriptive storytelling. It lists a series of simple sentences that plainly state facts about characters and their emotions or situations, such as “Jean is nervous about her first day at a new school.” Students are instructed to rewrite each sentence in a way that shows the reader what’s happening through descriptive details rather than just telling them. Each sentence is given its own space for the rewritten, more descriptive version, encouraging students to think creatively about how to express the scenarios.

This worksheet is teaching students the narrative technique of “showing” rather than “telling” in their writing. It helps students understand how to convey characters’ emotions and actions indirectly, creating a more engaging reading experience. By rewriting the given sentences, students learn to use sensory details, actions, and dialogue to illustrate a point, which can make their stories more vivid and immersive. The exercise aims to develop their ability to craft detailed scenes that allow readers to deduce what the characters are feeling and experiencing.