How To Incorporate Sensory Detail in Writing

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How to Incorporate

Sensory Detail in
Writing
ta i l s
r y D e
ns o
Se
Are facts that are collected
through the 5 senses.
Use sensory details in writing to give the
read a clear idea of what you are
describing.
pl e
am
Ex
Ask
What do you see?

What do you hear?

What do you feel?

What do you smell?

What do you taste?


Sight Sound Touch Taste Smell

Brilliant Clamor Cool Bland Foul

Dingy Hiss Dusty Creamy Perfumed

Gloomy Mumble Fluffy Gingery Putrid

Shadowy Rant Gooey Nauseating Spicy

Striped Squeal Prickly Peppery Sweet

Tarnished Thud Slippery Rotten Rancid

Twinkling Whimper Velvety Scrumptious Musty


Revising a Descriptive
Paragraph
1. Have I created a strong impression?
2. Have I created a vivid mental image through
the use of sensory details?
3. Have I used concrete words/descriptive
adjectives?
4. Do my details support the main idea of the
paragraph?
Activity
Choose a picture or item close to you.
Without naming what the picture or item is,
Write a paragraph describing it using sensory details
We will read it in class and
See if we can guess what’s in the picture or what the
item is that you describe.
Works Cited

http://www.perucsd.org/claun
dree/sensoryword20list.pdf

http://mrstolin.wikispaces.com
/file/view/Sensory+Details,+po
werpoint,+pdf.pdf

http://www.ehow.com/info_120
16990_activities-teaching-sensor
y-details.html

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