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Study.com: How to Use Descriptive Details & Sensory Language in Your Writing
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,...
TES Global
Blendspace: Sensory Details
A five-part learning module with links to images and videos about sensory details and using sensory language.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Imagery (English Iii Reading)
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...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Marshmallow and Pretzel Sensory Writing
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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Tesol: Sensory Details Worksheet: Adding Details Add Interest
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.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Imagery and Figurative Language (English 7 Reading)
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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Indiana Univerisity of Pennsylvania: Writing Center: Descriptive Writing
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...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Sum of Its Parts
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...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Grade Literature and Composition: Descriptive Writing
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...
The Write Place
Literacy Education Online
Literacy Education Online (or LEO) is a great place to start if you need help with your writing. The homepage is organized around kinds of problems or questions you might have concerning your writing. Find your problem, click on the...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Word Game for Kids: The Idea Game for Kids
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...
Harold D. Underdown
Derailed by Details
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.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Gummy Worm Writing
This activity is designed to introduce descriptive writing. It can be used in grades 3-5. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Descriptive Essay
Students learn to use one-main-idea think-sheets when producing simple descriptive essays.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Starting & Stopping With Strong Imagery: Revision Strategy
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...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: 'Nuts' About Peanuts!! (Writing)
This lesson will be implemented as part of a unit about plants. The students will describe the characteristics of a peanut and peanut butter (using their five senses) and record their observations/descriptions on a graphic organizer....
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Hearing: How Do Our Ears Work?
Students learn about the anatomy of the ear and how the ears work as a sound sensor. Ear anatomy parts and structures are explained in detail, as well as how sound is transmitted mechanically and then electrically through them to the...
Mind My Education
Mind My Education: The Life of Environments
This extensive lesson plan covers various topics about how animals interact with their environment. Topics include how animals sense their environment, how environments and organisms change together, and how animals use their senses to...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Shark Attack! The Hunt
This interactive module from the NOVA: "Shark Attack!" web site details the six senses that sharks use to find and capture their prey.
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Fiction teachers.com: How to Write a Mini Mystery
Use the ideas on this page to help your students create mini-mysteries.
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Child Development: Stages of Intellectual Development
Provides details of Piaget's theory of intellectual development, used by many developmental psychologists. It contains a chart illustrating "Stages of Cognitive Development."