Sensory language anchor chart

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

Visualizing and creating sensory images are such important reading strategies to teach and practice often with growing readers.

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

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

Imagery Anchor Chart

Sensory Images Anchor Chart

Sensory Details Anchor Chart

Imagery anchor chart

I LOVE making charts! Step into my classroom and you’ll probably say, “Wow, someone has too much time!” but to be honest, I don’t! I just love them so much and love the w…

I also do not teach language arts so I snapped some pictures from a 4th grade friend's classroom. She has some really neat ones! Your turn!!! Link up below!

Are you teaching creative writing? Can your students expanding sentences with sensory language? Check out this blog post with teaching tips for writing with imagery stretching sentences teaching narrative writing sensory details anchor chart descriptive writing how to teach narrative writing elaboration!

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…

Lately I have been encouraging my students to add more detail in their writing. They have great structure and conventions, but their detail was lacking. One way I decided encourage their use of detail was to introduce my students to the five senses. Including sensory words can help their writing to come to life! I knew I needed a hands on way to explore the senses so they really understand what each sense involves. I wanted their five senses exploration to be as interactive as possible and…

To see a candle's light, one must take it into a dark place. This is the same as to see the good and be grateful, one must compare and contrast it with something worse - not better!

This can be done with any type of food but we did it with popcorn. This can be done during large group or small group. Give each student a bowl of popcon. Make a chart with tastes, smells, looks, sounds and feels. Ask each child to describe each of these and write on the chart.

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