Teaching More Descriptive Writing

After reading this chapter, I found it so interesting that there are so many techniques to teaching writing. Having taken so many writing courses, I guess all of the different techniques that I have developed to make my writing style my own has just become latent knowledge that I recall every once in a while when I'm writing. The one example that I really liked the most in this reading was the idea of using the five senses in creating better writing. First, it's a standard that children need to learn their five senses, so this is a great way to incorporate two different subjects into one over the same topic. I saw that using the topic of a beach is a great way to allow students to really explore all five senses. Their descriptions could range anywhere from the sound of seagulls, to the taste of the salty water, to the sight of the vast and never ending ocean, to the feel of the hot sand beneath their toes. The options are endless! Also, I found that with with just the small writing example that we were given in class that there were so many options on how to help this student in writing! However, I would have liked to know just exactly what order is best to use when presenting these ideas. I know that it would be too intense to just hand a student a list of all of these examples, or to present them into one lecture. So, this is why I would like to know is....After I examine the student's writing do I just pick which one I think they need to elaborate on more? Or is there a sequence to these different specific crafts that we have been presented with?