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Better Lesson: Developing Characters and Experiences With Sensory Language

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Adding sensory languages makes your writing so good you can see, hear, smell, taste and touch it. This lesson will show you how to use descriptive sensory language in order to develop and capture the experiences and characters in a...
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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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Ms. Jordan Reads: Teaching Sensory Language With Mentor Texts

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson on sensory language revolves around the descriptive book "Where Butterflies Grow". Students will learn how sensory language connects to the five senses, learn a sensory language chant, understand the purpose of sensory...
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Education.com

Education.com: Words That Make Us Feel: A Lesson on Sensory Language

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] After this lesson centered around the book Owl Moon, students will be able to identify words and phrases that suggest feelings and appeal to the senses.
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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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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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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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Utah Education Network

Uen: Descriptive Sensory Writing

For Teachers 5th Standards
In this lesson, 5th graders will engage in descriptive writing. Students will improve a piece of writing by using precise word choices that are full of sensory word choices.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Descriptive Writing: Similes, Metaphors, Cliches, Hyperbole

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on figurative language used in descriptive writing including similes, metaphors, cliches, hyperbole. It offers multiple links to websites pertaining to figurative language in descriptive and creative writing; an...
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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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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Sensory Language

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces sensory language.
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CPALMS

Cpalms: Reading With Our Eyes, Fingers, Toes, Ears and Nose

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, learners are learning to identify sensory words in their reading, specifically in poetry. Students will gain a perspective on how authors use sensory words to portray their ideas. They...
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Pbs Learning Media: Literary Elements and Techniques: Imagery

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explore the literary technique of imagery to see how sensory language contributes to the meaning and feeling of a poem in this animated video [1:23] from WNET. Discussion questions below help students to further apply their understanding...
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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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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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Writing Fix: Colorful Sensory Poems

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
This lesson allows students to explore color - both in literal and figurative terms. Students will read books about color, discuss the emotion involved with color, and incorporate color metaphors to write poems using the graphic...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Imagery and Figurative Language

For Students 9th - 10th
In this lesson, you will learn how to make complex inferences and use textual evidence such as imagery and figurative language to support understanding.
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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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Better Lesson: Senses

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will engage in a lesson that teaches them to associate certain expressions and words with specific feelings. Included are a senses PowerPoint, a model of a graphic organizer, and a video and picture of the students engaged in...
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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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Story md.com: Infant and Newborn Development

For Students 9th - 10th
When will my baby take his first step or say her first word? During their first year, babies start to develop skills they will use for the rest of their lives. The normal growth of babies can be broken down into the following areas:...
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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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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Writing Narratives

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Notes, a PowerPoint presentation, two videos, a song, an exercise, and a game help students to understand how to write a narrative. Elements of a narrative as well as the use of figurative language and sensory images are introduced and...
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Class Flow: Learning Colors

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart starts off with identifying colors and then moves into patterns, alphabet song and cheer, handwriting practice, sensory words and books.

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