Sensory words in writing

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

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

Sensory words allow readers to experience your words as if they're living your story. Here's how to use sensory words, even in business 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...

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.

Embark on a journey of creativity. Explore how incorporating vivid sensory details elevates storytelling, providing practical tips and exercises to help students bring their narratives to life. Unleash the potential of imaginative writing, where every word creates a world of its own! #ImageryInCreativeWriting #Imagery #CreativeWriting #JournalBuddies

In the last creative writing lesson, we focused on character and conflict. Short story writing continues to be the focus in this lesson as we examine point of view. Point of View Lesson Plan 1.Homework highlights: read and discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly from homework assignments. 2. Read “Point of View” by …

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…