Setting is the time and place that a story occurs.

How to Describe Setting in Writing

1. Use sensory details. Use all five senses to describe the immediate surroundings to the reader to quickly immerse them in the environment of your story.
2. Show, don’t tell.
3. Use real-life locations.
4. Incorporate figurative language.
5. Keep it simple.

Setting, in literature, the location and time frame in which the action of a narrative takes place.

STEP 1: Select a setting (like winter wonderland) or allow your students to select a topic. STEP 2: Show images of a setting to inspire descriptive ideas. STEP 3: Whole Group – Explain to students that the purpose of writing a descriptive setting is to paint a picture for their reader using words.

The Fundamental Elements of Setting

• Locale. This relates to broad categories such as a country, state, region, city, and town, as well as to more specific locales, such as a neighborhood, street, house or school.
• Time of year.
• Time of day.
• Elapsed time.
• Mood and atmosphere.
• Climate.
• Geography.
• Man-made geography.

Setting is the time and place where a scene occurs. It can help set the mood, influence the way characters behave, affect the dialog, foreshadow events, invoke an emotional response, reflect the society in which the characters live, and sometimes even plays a part in the story.

From the earliest times, people have found sustenance and solace, challenge and mystery in the natural world. From representations of animal and vegetable life to landscapes and earthworks, art has been a means by which humans have expressed their awe of, communion with, dependence on, and isolation from nature.