Sensory details

Some words have the power to invoke sensory responses. They are called sensory words.

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

Sensory Details Anchor Chart

Words for Tastes & Aromas. Here is a cheat sheet to help you add sensory details involving the most overlooked senses--taste and smell.

Encourage students to add sensory details to their writing with this worksheet.

Download this A4 Printable writing aid - words that describe someone's voice I'm learning to write. Well, I should start that again. I'm learning to write a novel, and write it well. I found that I wa

Use this FREE printable PDF list of 100 sensory words to teach imagery! It’s perfect for teaching students in upper elementary and middle school how to add descriptive details to their narrative writing. Use the list to create an anchor chart to help students add sensory language to their writing. Inspire creativity and improve writing with this helpful worksheet! Click to get your freebie now! #4thgrade #5thgrade #thirdgrade #fourthgrade #fifithgrade

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🧠 Discover Your Child's Hidden Superpowers! 🧩 Ever wonder why your child reacts a certain way? 🤔 It all starts with the 8 sensory systems: Visual 👀, Olfactory 👃, Tactile ✋, Gustatory 👅, Interoception 🫀, Vestibular 🎢, Proprioception 🦶, and Auditory 👂. Dr. Stephen Porges stated "Sensory experiences drive our behavior and contribute to the organization of our thoughts and emotions.”. 📚 But what happens when there's a glitch in the system? Sensory dysregulation can lead to unexpected…

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…

Finding Sensory Details in Poetry provides students with a poem that are full of sensory details. Students will focus in on those sensory details and underline them in a designated color. Students then sketch out the images those details paint in their heads. These activities can be completed independently, with a partner, or in small groups. These activities can also be used as additional practice or as an assessment piece. This file includes the following poem: Outer Spaceman written by…

The educational resource helps teach students about sentence expansion. As with all of our resources, it is customizable so you can tailor this resource for your class."Sentence Expansion Techniques" teaches students to enhance their writing by adding descriptive details using conjunctions, appositi...

Anchor charts are an important instructional tool. Notice how this teacher, Kylene Parks at Boise-Eliot, has included examples from the mentor text she used in teaching students about sensory images. Later, she invited students to add their own examples of sensory details. Having students add their own examples of writing elements you have taught is a meaningful form of accountability for them as writers. If you teach it, you are expecting them to try using it. Including student examples on…

A year ago, I had my students write a poem called My Unusual Thanksgiving. We had a guest speaker who shared her poetry so I didn't create a printable for the lesson. Here is the original prompt: Write a list poem called "My Unusual Thanksgiving". Try to include images and events that are not typical of a Thanksgiving dinner on TV. What makes the way you and your family celebrate unique? This year my students have five days off over Thanksgiving weekend. I created this sheet to help them…

Sensory Seeking or Sensory Sensitive? Learn about the difference, along with the 8 sensory systems, in this blog post by Help Me Grow Utah

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Sensory Diet resources and printable handouts to develop and implement sensory activities for children and students with sensory processing difficulties.

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Sensory words (sensory details) describe how we see, hear, touch, taste, and smell. And they’re the smart writer’s best friend.