Sensory details in writing

Sensory details are brief statements, phrases, or words that may be used to describe a situation or entity using one's senses. These elements, which might be a single sentence or a mix of words, can serve to portray the situation. The use of sensory information improves both text and voice.

A mini anchor chart for teaching sensory words, imagery, and visualization!

Students will gather ideas from texts, multimedia, and personal experiences to write narratives that: develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique descriptive details...

As my writing course is coming to end I would like to share an activity that we worked on last week using sensory details. Good writers know that their reader will need to visualize when reading their story. It is important to have your students adding details that help the reader to see, hear, touch, feel, smell, and even taste. This adds so much to the student's writing and is a quick way to spice up a bland writing piece. I have posted some of my professors favorite picture books to use…

Take mystery and suspenseful writing to the next level with this worksheet! Students can revise sentences and then use this exercise to make their own writing more evocative. Use this worksheet to practice adding vivid details to sentences.

Some words have the power to invoke sensory responses. They are called sensory words.

sensory prompts p1

Teaching descriptive writing by telling writers to “SHOW, not tell” is ineffective. Writers need to know what you mean by “SHOW.” Description requires...

Last night I read my short story to an audience of 80+. My son, brother, and some friends came out to hear me read and accept my award, which made me a little nervous but their presence mean…