Sensory Language Writing Activities – 5-Senses Organisers

- Year levels
- Years 3–7
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Strategies, Writing, English
- Topic
- Description, Writing
- Resource types
- Worksheets
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Australian Curriculum content descriptions
- AC9E6LY06 — plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be…
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This teaching material aims to assist teachers in their efforts to teach students ways to use Sensory Language when describing. Particularly, it helps them teach the 5-senses descriptive strategy. This particular strategy transforms simplistic and dull descriptions into rich and impressive ones. Students, after constant repetition, eventually learn to incorporate this strategy into their written descriptive discourse.
What is Sensory Language? It is the use of sensory details in description.
What are Sensory Details? Sensory details are bits of information, which you collect through your five senses. Incorporate sensory details into your descriptive writing. In this way, you give the reader a much cleaner idea and a more specific picture of what you are describing. Moreover, Sensory language brings our writing to life, and it helps the reader to feel like they are a part of the experience. In other words, Sensory language are words and phrases that link readers to the five senses: touch, sight, sound or hearing, smell, and taste.
This certain product Includes three organisers and three writing templates for implementing the 5-senses strategy in descriptive writing:
-How to describe a flower, using the 5-senses technique (or strategy).
-How to describe a fruit, using the 5-senses technique (or strategy).
-How to describe a sweet, using the 5-senses technique (or strategy).
In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Record details about an object for each of the five senses
Write a short description that uses sensory details
Skills covered
Gathering sensory details — noting details sense by sense on the flower, sweet and fruit organisers
Descriptive writing — turning organiser notes into a short text about a favourite flower, fruit or sweet
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Australian Curriculum (Version 9.0)
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
- AC9E6LY06 — plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, using paragraphs, a variety of complex sentences, expanded verb groups, tense, topic-specific and vivid vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and visual features
Core concepts
Sensory language
Five senses
Descriptive writing
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