What are the steps to describing a chemical equation? (i couldn't find a way that made sense to me)
What do you mean "describing"?
If you mean balancing a chem equation, that is different. While I have no idea what you need to "make sense" to you, the process is to make certain 1) the mass is balanced on each side, on each element. That is an iterative process of trial and error, usually. One has to know the oxidation rules and apply them, and that is the most common error students have in "making sense". Ca(OH) is not the same as Ca(OH)2, and the oxidation rules define that. The second part on balancing is to make certain electrical charge is preserved (balanced). Usually, that is automatic with the mass, but in one class of reactions (redox), it is not so apparent.