Sensory words 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,

Sensory Details Anchor Chart

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

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

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…

Show Don't Tell Anchor Chart! This blog post contains a complete writing lesson and the printables you'll need to create the anchor chart and replicate the activities!

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