Sensory details

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!

Sensory Details Anchor Chart

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…

Encourage students to add sensory details to their writing with this worksheet.

Download this A4 Printable writing aid - words that describe someone's voice I'm learning to write. Well, I should start that again. I'm learning to write a novel, and write it well. I found that I wa

In between every 2-3 formal writing units, I love to throw in something fun! It keeps the kids excited about writing class and gives me a break from excessive grading! At this point in the school year, the kids have done a lot of writing! We created and wrote from lists for most of September to get us well-established with Writer's Notebook and to increase our stamina. And we've spent the good part of October writing two different narrative pieces. Now, it's time for something fun!! This…

Anchor charts are an important instructional tool. Notice how this teacher, Kylene Parks at Boise-Eliot, has included examples from the mentor text she used in teaching students about sensory images. Later, she invited students to add their own examples of sensory details. Having students add their own examples of writing elements you have taught is a meaningful form of accountability for them as writers. If you teach it, you are expecting them to try using it. Including student examples on…

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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,