Narrative Writing Lessons: Sensory Details Lesson Plans and Activities

Description

Teach students to write with the five senses. This narrative writing unit includes lesson plans, an anchor chart, and activities built around mentor texts rich in sensory details.

Your narrative writing lesson plans are done! In this unit, students will read books with sensory details and discuss what makes them great, understand the different types of sensory language, generate sensory details, revise writing to improve the descriptive language, and try out sensory language in their own writing. Activities are hands-on and authentic and include step by step plans!

Included in this resource:

• Teacher tips for introducing writing strategies
• Mentor text list for language describing the five different senses
• Lesson plans for the unit (9 days)
• A hands-on activity in which students read examples of sensory language, identify the sense being described, and explain the effect on the reader
• Materials for building an anchor chart to record the hands-on learning
• A language generating activity complete with photos and charting ideas
• Mark It Up! An activity for identifying the five senses
• 6 Sensory Language posters with sentence starters
• Sensory Language notes: 2 versions – complete and ready to write
• Revise It: revise a boring paragraph using sensory language (sample key included)
• Revise Your Own: a guide to revising your own boring writing
• Try It: a guide to writing with sensory language
• Sensory Language tips – a bookmark sized tip sheet

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