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Tickling the Senses: Three Activities to Help Increase Students’ Use of Sensory Details in Their Writing

Tickling the Senses: Three Activities to Help Increase Students’ Use of Sensory Details in Their Writing. by Susanna Cole. Learning Targets Students will use sensory details in their own descriptive writing.

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Tickling the Senses: Three Activities to Help Increase Students’ Use of Sensory Details in Their Writing

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  1. Tickling the Senses: Three Activities to Help Increase Students’ Use of Sensory Details in Their Writing by Susanna Cole

  2. Learning Targets Students will use sensory details in their own descriptive writing. Students will recognize the use of a variety sensory details in literature. GLEs 1st Grade:3.1.1. Analyzes ideas, selects topic, adds detail, and elaborates. 5th Grade: 3.1.1. Analyzes ideas, selects a narrow topic, and elaborates using specific details and/or examples 10th Grade: 3.1.1. Analyzes ideas, selects a manageable topic, and elaborates using specific, relevant details and/or examples LTs and Some Relevant GLEs

  3. Activity 1: Guess This PlacePoem

  4. Suggestions for Activity 1 • Round One: Take whole class outside and have them write about the schoolyard and then share what they wrote with each other to help them see how differently people can perceive the same place • Round Two: For HW, have students observe/recall a place that is special to them and write a Guess This Place poem about it to share with peers the next day

  5. Example: Guess This Place • Dry air • Cool breeze from the A/C • The fresh sweetness of new books and the mustiness of old ones • Rows and rows of dimly lit shelves • The bleep of the check-out machine

  6. Activity 2: Sensory Overload Paragraph Group-Write SET UP 1.Pick a setting familiar to all students that is packed with sensory triggers, like, oh, THE SCHOOL CAFETERIA 2.Divide students into groups of 5 3. Give each group 1 pencil or pen, 1 sheet of paper, and 1 envelope with 5 slips each labeled with 1 of the senses 4. Have each member draw a slip.

  7. Directions for Activity 2 • Inform the group they will write a descriptive paragraph about the assigned place in silence. • Each member will write a sentence that includes the kind of sensory detail she or he drew. • One person will write a sentence at a time and then pass it to the next. • Each member should try her best to build on the previous sentence so the paragraph flows

  8. Directions for Activity 2 Cont’d • Let group members decide which order they will write in. Remind #1s they will need to write strong leads & #5s they will be expected to wrap up the paragraph as neatly as possible. • Set a time limit that is appropriate for the age. • When time is up have a volunteer from each groups share out what their group wrote.

  9. Activity 3:Interactive Read Alouds with Hand Signals for Sensory Details • 1. Have your class brainstorm a hand signal or gesture for each type of sensory detail. • 2. Then read a passage from an age appropriate book and have students gesture the kinds of sensory details they hear as you read. Note that authors rarely back every single type of sensory detail into one paragraph. • 3.Have students read their own work to an audience of peers and ask their audience to gesture the types of details they hear.

  10. YES!!! No :( The End. Do We Have Time to Try Any of These?

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