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Ask Your Senses When Writing

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ELA: Writing ^21st Century Skills Elementary School Strategy

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Verbal Reasoning

Ask Your Senses When Writing

If your student needs to use more descriptive language when writing

How To Apply It!

  1. Take a deliberate approach to using your five senses to make your story more descriptive and interesting for your reader.
  2. To make a story come to life, describe the full experience you are envisioning. Imagine your story and write down: a) What do I hear? b) What do I feel? c) What do I smell? d) What do I see? e) What do I taste?
  3. Once you have identified all the sensory details, don't feel obligated to use them all but do choose the ones that effectively describe a character or event.

Why It Works (the Science Of Learning)!

Going through the explicit exercise of thinking through and writing down what you are sensing, or what you want your reader to feel and see, will help you set the scene and create a rich, descriptive experience for your reader.