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!

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…

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Sensory Details Anchor Chart

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

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

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…