Sensory words in writing

Students will gather ideas from texts, multimedia, and personal experiences to write narratives that: develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique descriptive details...

This worksheet helps young writers see the difference sensory words can make by asking them to compare sentences with sensory words and without.

Give your students practice writing with detail and using vivid words.

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

Using the 5 senses in writing can deeply immerse readers in scenes and stories. It’s a skill that can elevate books to a higher level. But so often we writers find ourselves lured into the trap of relying on sight and sound. Many people experience things through smells, touch, and taste. It’s our job as authors to use the five senses in writing to enrich our tales and prose with vivid imagery.

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

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Take mystery and suspenseful writing to the next level with this worksheet! Students can revise sentences and then use this exercise to make their own writing more evocative. Use this worksheet to practice adding vivid details to sentences.

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…