Appeal to Senses Anchor Chart

Yummy, melody, perfumed, glistened, and bumpy are among the words sorted into taste, hear, smell, see, and touch on a five-category sensory-language chart.
Year groups
Years 2–4 (Key Stages 1–2)
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Updated Sep 27, 2026

Subject
Reading, English
Topic
Anchor Chart, Writing
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About this resource

This resource is an anchor chart set for the five senses. This is great to utilise for your little readers and writers as you challenge them to enhance their writing with descriptive words.

There are 2 anchor charts - one with a fill in the blank. Then there are 2 charts for students to use as they read. If there is an interesting word that the author used, they can utilise this writing chart to determine which sense did the author appeal to.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Identify and categorise descriptive words by the sense they appeal to — taste, hearing, smell, sight, or touch.

  • Recall or infer a missing sensory word using the chart's category and surrounding examples.

  • Apply a sentence frame to explain how a specific word an author used appeals to a particular sense.

Teaching tips

  • Post the full reference chart as a classroom anchor chart, then use the partially blanked version as independent or partner practice.

  • Pair the sentence-frame pages with a specific read-aloud text, since the frame asks students to name "the word the Author used" from that text.

  • Offer the "It reminds me ___" alternative ending for students who find it easier to make a personal connection than to describe what a word "makes them think."

Skills covered

  • Sensory language identification — students sort descriptive words like perfumed, glistened, and bumpy into the correct sense category.

  • Word recall and inference — students fill in blanked words on the practice chart using the surrounding category and examples.

  • Textual analysis via sentence frames — students use a fill-in template to explain which sense an author's word choice appeals to and what it makes them think of.

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Core concepts

  • Sensory language

  • Descriptive words

  • Reading response

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