This Prompt's Title:
The Idea Game
for Kids
brainstorming three sensory details about a personal topic
before writing about it
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How can using your five senses help you tell a better story?
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How do you teach young writers to carefully select sensory details to include in a piece of personal writing?
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 I love to use all of Patricia MacLachlan's books when I am helping students explore powerful sensory details. Her All the Places to Love is one of the sweetest memoirs ever written, and its a marvelous book to share and show what strong sensory details sound like in writing. It's always useful to make a five-column chart before you read the book--one column for each sense--and to have the students listen for words and phrases in the text that help the reader feel the same sensations as the author.
--Corbett Harrison, Reno, Nevada
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 I try to incorporate concrete objects for my first and second graders to write about. My most succesfuls lesson included apples. We brainstormed "juicy" words, similes, and even looked in the thesaurus for more interesting words.
I sliced up apples, passed out paper, and had students write about how the apples tasted, smelled, and sounded.
-- Wanda Angus, Gig Harbor, Washington
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