Do your students need help moving beyond simply telling how a character feels and creating more vivid, descriptive writing?
This Show Don’t Tell Anchor Chart, Posters, Planning Sheets & Sorting Activity includes show don’t tell posters, planning sheets, a hands-on sorting activity, and editable templates to help students recognise, understand and apply the show don’t tell writing technique. Clear examples and carefully selected prompts help students explore how feelings can be shown through facial expressions, body language, actions, dialogue, thoughts and internal feelings, while developing stronger descriptive and narrative writing skills.
Perfect for descriptive and narrative writing instruction, literacy lessons, modelled and shared writing, classroom displays, literacy centres, small-group instruction, intervention, independent writing, and year-round classroom reference.
WHAT'S INCLUDED:
𓅦 Show Don't Tell Posters
Sad
Angry
Happy
Surprised
Bored
Worried
Excited
Scared
Confused
Proud
Jealous
Hopeful
Lonely
Embarrassed
Frustrated
Shocked
Shy
Silly
Grumpy
Interested
Disgusted
Disappointed
Nervous
Brave
Curious
Impatient
Tired
Hot
Cold
Sick
Hungry
Thirsty
𓅦 Header Posters
𓅦 Planning Sheets
Planning sheets for brainstorming show rather than tell
𓅦 Sort Activity
Sort show sentence examples by feelings
𓅦 3 Colour Options
Warm Blaze themed full colour
Warm Blaze themed minimal colour
Black & white
𓅦 2 Poster Orientation Options
Landscape
Portrait
𓅦 Editable Templates
Canva template (posters)
Microsoft PowerPoint template (posters)
𓅦 Resource Guide PDF
Teaching suggestions
Quick access links to Google resources and Canva templates
WHY YOU'LL LOVE THIS RESOURCE:
Covering a wide range of feelings, emotions and physical states, this resource gives students a comprehensive bank of show don’t tell ideas they can draw on when developing characters and writing descriptive scenes. Choose from three colour options and two orientations to suit your classroom space, and simply print and display with minimal prep.
The planning sheets provide structured support for brainstorming and organising show don’t tell details, while the hands-on sorting activity asks students to match show sentences to the feelings being conveyed. Editable templates provide further flexibility to customise the resource and create additional examples to suit your students. Together, the posters, planning sheets and activity provide multiple ways to introduce, practise, apply, reinforce and revisit show, don’t tell throughout the year.
EDITABLE TEMPLATES
Editable Canva and Microsoft PowerPoint templates allow you to customise the text and any fonts that are not part of the design.
Please note: The page design, graphics, colours and overall layout are fixed.
Do your students need help moving beyond simply telling how a character feels and creating more vivid, descriptive writing?
This Show Don’t Tell Anchor Chart, Posters, Planning Sheets & Sorting Activity includes show don’t tell posters, planning sheets, a hands-on sorting activity, and editable templates to help students recognise, understand and apply the show don’t tell writing technique. Clear examples and carefully selected prompts help students explore how feelings can be shown through facial expressions, body language, actions, dialogue, thoughts and internal feelings, while developing stronger descriptive and narrative writing skills.
Perfect for descriptive and narrative writing instruction, literacy lessons, modelled and shared writing, classroom displays, literacy centres, small-group instruction, intervention, independent writing, and year-round classroom reference.
WHAT'S INCLUDED:
𓅦 Show Don't Tell Posters
Sad
Angry
Happy
Surprised
Bored
Worried
Excited
Scared
Confused
Proud
Jealous
Hopeful
Lonely
Embarrassed
Frustrated
Shocked
Shy
Silly
Grumpy
Interested
Disgusted
Disappointed
Nervous
Brave
Curious
Impatient
Tired
Hot
Cold
Sick
Hungry
Thirsty
𓅦 Header Posters
𓅦 Planning Sheets
Planning sheets for brainstorming show rather than tell
𓅦 Sort Activity
Sort show sentence examples by feelings
𓅦 3 Colour Options
Warm Blaze themed full colour
Warm Blaze themed minimal colour
Black & white
𓅦 2 Poster Orientation Options
Landscape
Portrait
𓅦 Editable Templates
Canva template (posters)
Microsoft PowerPoint template (posters)
𓅦 Resource Guide PDF
Teaching suggestions
Quick access links to Google resources and Canva templates
WHY YOU'LL LOVE THIS RESOURCE:
Covering a wide range of feelings, emotions and physical states, this resource gives students a comprehensive bank of show don’t tell ideas they can draw on when developing characters and writing descriptive scenes. Choose from three colour options and two orientations to suit your classroom space, and simply print and display with minimal prep.
The planning sheets provide structured support for brainstorming and organising show don’t tell details, while the hands-on sorting activity asks students to match show sentences to the feelings being conveyed. Editable templates provide further flexibility to customise the resource and create additional examples to suit your students. Together, the posters, planning sheets and activity provide multiple ways to introduce, practise, apply, reinforce and revisit show, don’t tell throughout the year.
EDITABLE TEMPLATES
Editable Canva and Microsoft PowerPoint templates allow you to customise the text and any fonts that are not part of the design.
Please note: The page design, graphics, colours and overall layout are fixed.
