Sensory language

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

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

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…

Use this FREE printable PDF list of 100 sensory words to teach imagery! It’s perfect for teaching students in upper elementary and middle school how to add descriptive details to their narrative writing. Use the list to create an anchor chart to help students add sensory language to their writing. Inspire creativity and improve writing with this helpful worksheet! Click to get your freebie now! #4thgrade #5thgrade #thirdgrade #fourthgrade #fifithgrade

Sensory Details Anchor Chart

Explicitly teaching and practicing reading strategies is so important to give students tools to better comprehend what they are reading. Some of these powerful strategies include using background knowledge, making predictions, asking questions, making inferences,

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What is Imagery? Words that appeal to readers' senses are referred to as imagery. Writers usually try to describe places, characters, and events in ways that help readers imagine how they look, feel, smell, sound, and taste. As writers we use imagery to help create mental pictures in the minds of our readers. We want to show our readers what is happening, as opposed to just telling them. How do we go about incorporating more imagery and sensory details into our writing? How do we show our…

Introduce your third-grade writer to sensory words with this worksheet about sorting adjectives under the correct senses.