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Using the Five Senses in Teaching Students With Disabilities to Write Descriptive Paragraphs and/or Poetry

Using the Five Senses in Teaching Students With Disabilities to Write Descriptive Paragraphs and/or Poetry. Joanne M. Benson Email: joeyntx@satx.rr.com San Antonio Writing Project. Descriptive Writing Using Your Senses. Purpose of this strategy

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Using the Five Senses in Teaching Students With Disabilities to Write Descriptive Paragraphs and/or Poetry

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  1. Using the Five Senses in Teaching Students With Disabilities to Write Descriptive Paragraphs and/or Poetry Joanne M. Benson Email: joeyntx@satx.rr.com San Antonio Writing Project

  2. Descriptive Writing Using Your Senses Purpose of this strategy To help students with learning disabilities and students in ELL use their five senses to increase their descriptive writing skills

  3. Descriptive Writing Using Your Senses All about me: Recent graduate of UTSA with a Master’s degree in Special Education Worked in Early Childhood, as a Substitute Teacher, and a Paraeducator

  4. Descriptive Writing Using Your Senses My philosophy of writing and literacy is that it is a gift ready to be opened I wish my students to enjoy the gift of writing and not fear it I wish my students to open the gift with joyful anticipation I wish my students to use this gift practically and expressively I wish my students to give the gift of writing and literacy to others in their writing

  5. Descriptive Writing Using Your Senses My Inspiration Walt Disney “I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.” Carol Burnett “Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.” My author friend LeeAnn Newton “Close your eyes Joanne and tell me what you hear.” My students “I hate to write, no one can read my writing, why do I have to write?”

  6. Descriptive Writing Using Your Senses How I used this: Jennifer Hall Kruger Middle School 7th grade GT students The other teacher consultants in the summer institute

  7. Descriptive Writing Using Your Senses Research: Patterson, E., Schaller, M., & Clemens, J., (2008). A closer look at interactive writing. The Reading Teacher, 61 (6), 496-497. Douville, P., (2004). Use mental imagery across the curriculum. Preventing SchoolFailure, 49 (1), 36-39. Santagelo, T., Harris, K.R., & Graham, S., (2008). Using self-regulated strategy development to support students who have “Trubol Giting Thangs Into Werds”. Remedial & Special Education, 29 (2), 78-89. Diliberto, J.A., (2004). Improving descriptive sentence writing in elementary school. Preventing School Failure, 48 (4), 34-36.

  8. Descriptive Writing Using Your Senses References: For K-2: Writing a Poem Using the Five Senses: http://www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/Health/Body_Systems_and_Senses/BSS0009.html For 3-5: Sense You Asked! Writing Workshop Lesson: http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/pages/520.shtml For Middle School: Creative Writing: A Unit based on the Harry Potter Series (Vocabulary) http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/englishresource/creative.html Using the Five Senses to Enhance Your Writing http://ezinearticles.com/?Using-the-Five-Senses-to-Enhance-Your-Writing&id=180036

  9. Descriptive Writing Using Your Senses Before the writing begins I explain the process Walk them through the steps I read excerpts from novels/short stories Examples: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling Eggs by Jerry Spinelli Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis Island of the Blue Dolphin by Scott O’Dell I give a list of descriptive vocabulary words I model how to use the senses by exploring one of the senses and doing a think aloud and writing a few sentences I then put my pieces together to write one final piece

  10. Descriptive Writing Using Your Senses The Lesson • Each student takes a colored 3 x 5 note card the corresponds with the sense, i.e. Pink = Sight • The students will then go to the table with the corresponding sense. • While at the table they will explore the sense object • Once the object is explored the student will write descriptively on the note card (No rules, can have bullets, thoughts, complete sentences) • After they have written what they wish on the note card, they will take their note cards and create a final product including all of the senses they wrote about • This can be done in the form of an essay or poem or a narrative * Modifications can be made to these steps

  11. Descriptive Writing Using Your Senses Modifications Can be used with all grades and abilities Special Education/ELL Can be used as a group pre-write or individual pre-write Can be used as a mini-lesson, i.e. one sense per lesson Can be used in workshop format

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