Sensory Details Writing Minilessons for Google Classroom™
$12.75
This resource includes video lessons and assignments for teaching sensory details. It’s everything you need, from start to finish, to teach nine days of writing to your fourth and fifth graders! Just assign each day to your students in Google Classroom and you’re set! You must have signed up for G-Suite and have a Google account to use this resource.
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Description
This resource includes video lessons and assignments for teaching sensory details. It’s everything you need, from start to finish, to teach nine days of writing to your fourth and fifth graders! Just assign each day to your students in Google Classroom and you’re set! You must have signed up for G-Suite and have a Google account to use this resource.
These lessons could not be more manageable for students and parents, or easier for you to use! Just copy them using the links provided in the pdf you’ll download, assign them in Google classroom. and students can hand in their work online as they complete it! You can even schedule due dates if you’d like.
You will first download a .zip file to get access to the made-for-Google resources.
Here’s what’s included.
A Teacher’s Guide: learning targets and lesson descriptions for each day of instruction, plus clickable links for copying the resources to your Google Drive. All activities for this unit are in Google Slides.
Nine days of minilessons
Each minilesson includes…
- a video lesson taught by me (lessons are between 4-11 minutes; most of them are around five minutes long)
- an introduction to the assignment during the video lesson
- an assignment that students can complete to demonstrate their learning
On day one of instruction, students…
- Are briefly introduced to sensory details: sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste
- listen to a text read aloud and a think aloud about noticing sensory details
- use a digital sticky note to write two “noticings” of their own
On day two of instruction, students…
- watch a video that reviews the five types of sensory details
- match examples of sensory details with the sense they appeal to
On day three of instruction, students…
- watch a video that analyzes a paragraph for sensory details
- analyze three paragraphs for sensory details
On day four of instruction, students…
- watch a video in which I use photographs to brainstorm sensory details to describe the season of spring
- use photographs to brainstorm sensory details of their own to describe spring
On day five of instruction, students…
- watch a video that models how to use the language we brainstormed to write a descriptive paragraph
- use their own sensory details to write a descriptive paragraph
On day six of instruction, students…
- watch a video that models how to revise a boring paragraph using sensory details
- revise a different boring paragraph using sensory details
On day seven of instruction, students…
- watch a video in which I brainstorm ideas for writing and choose one
- brainstorm their own ideas for writing and choose they one they’ll write about
On day eight of instruction, students…
- watch a video that models how to brainstorm details to describe the idea I chose
- brainstorm their own sensory details about their own idea
On day nine of instruction, students…
- watch a video that models how to use the sensory details to write a descriptive paragraph
- use their own sensory details to write a descriptive paragraph
A Unit Assignment Slide: share in Google Classroom so parents know what’s coming
How-to videos
- Copying the resources to your Google Drive
- Creating assignments in Google Classroom
- Viewing student responses from Google Forms
