Sensory details anchor chart

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

Sensory Details Anchor Chart

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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!

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

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,

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

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…

I also do not teach language arts so I snapped some pictures from a 4th grade friend's classroom. She has some really neat ones! Your turn!!! Link up below!