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The Write Place

Literacy Education Online: Sensory Details

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides several sample sentences which show sensory details and aid students in writing specific rather than general sentences. It is a good site for someone preparing to write a descriptive essay. W.9-10.3d Precise/sensory...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Sensory Details

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Learners will learn how to enhance their narrative writing by incorporating sensory details to convey experiences and events. A power point presentation on sensory details is included.
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Other

Study.com: How to Use Descriptive Details & Sensory Language in Your Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
When you write a narrative, you can draw your reader into your experiences by adding specific, concrete details and sensory language to your storytelling. This lesson tells you exactly how to do it. W.9-10.3d Precise/sensory details,...
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TES Global

Blendspace: Sensory Details

For Students K - 1st Standards
A five-part learning module with links to images and videos about sensory details and using sensory language.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Marshmallow and Pretzel Sensory Writing

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This language arts lesson applies hands-on materials to help middle schoolers apply the sensory details need for writing. It also incorporates writing skills for comparing and contrasting. In addition, students will utilize Thinkfinity...
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Other

Waunakee Community School District: Sensory Words [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A list of sensory words are included on this site. These words are organized according to each "sense" category. W.9-10.3d Precise/sensory details
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Other

Tesol: Sensory Details Worksheet: Adding Details Add Interest

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Use this worksheet to practice enhancing your writing by using sensory language. Sensory details include words that describe sights, sounds, and smells of the setting, characters, and interactions.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Imagery (English Iii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will learn how writers use words that allow them to create pictures in their heads. When a writer uses sensory details or words that appeal to our senses, then we are able to use our senses and our memory to...
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Grammar Check

Grammar Check: How to Write a Descriptive Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article provides seven steps to follow when writing a descriptive essay. Ideas for ways to incorporate sensory details are emphasized. W.9-10.3d Precise/sensory details
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Grade Literature and Composition: Descriptive Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on descriptive writing including discussing what it is and the chararacteristics. It provides links to the web articles: "How to Write a Descriptive Essay," "5 Model Descriptive Paragraphs," "MLA Formatting and Style...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Imagery and Figurative Language (English 7 Reading)

For Students 6th - 8th
This lesson, focuses on three ways to use figurative language: to create imagery, to appeal to the senses (using sensory detail), and to suggest mood.
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The Write Place

Literacy Education Online: Logical Fallacies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from the St. Cloud State University provides many links in this index with general writing help. Under "Development" you'll find "Sensory Details." Under "Logical Fallicies" you'll find a link by the same name. Look under...
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Other

Indiana Univerisity of Pennsylvania: Writing Center: Descriptive Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This website from the Writing Center at Indiana Univerisity of Pennsylvania focuses on descriptive writing. It includes discussion and examples of the following: Creating a dominant impression or mood, using sensory details, using vivid...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Sum of Its Parts

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Inspired by Julianna's understanding (from the novel Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen) that "A painting is more than the sum of its parts," students will describe a memorable place that evokes a certain feeling or emotion. Students will...
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University of Virginia Library

Prism: "Tom Sawyer Chapter 2 Opening" Visualization

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted the opening of chapter 2 of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer. Emotional details are blue, sensory details are red, and nature details are green. Click on any word to...
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Harold D. Underdown

Derailed by Details

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A helpful site for writers which gives the proper perspective in assessing the detail involved in your writing. Provides examples of how to include exciting, relevant details when writing fiction.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Word Game for Kids: The Idea Game for Kids

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
How can using your five senses help you tell a better story? Young writers brainstorm three sensory details about a personal topic before writing a story about it. If they need help with ideas, they can click the magic button for story...
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BBC

Bbc Bitesize Revision: Describing Scenes

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
As part of a revision and writing section of BBC Bitesize focusing on specific forms of writing, this site discusses describing scenes as a type of descriptive writing. W.9-10.3d Precise/sensory details
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Starting & Stopping With Strong Imagery: Revision Strategy

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, students will engage in revising their writings to incorporate sensory images. Students will brainstorm topics of places, away from their home, that are special. Then students will choose and then write a descriptive...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Bizarre Foods With Ralph Fletcher: A Narrative Revision Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this instructional activity, Ralph Fletcher's writing style is introduced to student writers. Students will write a rough draft about a time they ate, or a time when they saw someone else eat, something unusual. Then students will...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Hershey Kiss Descriptive Essay

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This is a fun lesson to demonstrate the power of words to describe a simple chocolate treat prior to writing a five-paragraph descriptive essay.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Gummy Worm Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This activity is designed to introduce descriptive writing. It can be used in grades 3-5. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Descriptive Essay

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Students learn to use one-main-idea think-sheets when producing simple descriptive essays.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Sounds: What We Hear!

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will create a descriptive writing about the sounds they hear in a favorite place. This is a good follow-up to a science unit on sound.

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