Tira began the session by explaining the concept of Show Don’t Tell with Alyssa. She provided practical examples that make this technique easy to grasp. She thoroughly broke down each step in story telling and used visual techniques to allow the student to strengthen their vivid description and apply it to structured narrative writing. She also illustrated her points by allowing the student to use memories from her favourite movie scenes and what makes those scenes really stand out from the rest. They analysed a paragraph about a forest at night which involved heavy description and emotion to prove how important description is in order to attract audience or readers. Tira’s exceptional teaching of this concept really guided the student through rich detail, sensory detail and clear modelling and it was wonderful to see the student grasping the idea and begin to love writing. They ended the session with a small spelling quiz where the student performed well.

Razan Rustom