I placed multiple scenes around the room and students walked around with their sticky notes to add examples of sensory language. Below, you see us analyzing our ideas and judging whether they are specific enough, make sense, and are accurate. The most important part is a safe discussion and adjustment of ideas that were not quite there yet.
In learning the writing skills required in fictional story writing, students are currently focusing on sensory language. First, they worked on ensuring their personal stories had the basic organizational parts needed for a well laid out beginning, middle and end. Once students could excel at this, looking at their work, I decided to move on to developing student's details. We have discussed and made accessible many tools for adding detail into our writing. Students have been taught to think of the 5W's+H and use decorations such as dialogue, thoughts, feelings and actions. To enhance this trait moreso, we move to sensory language and practiced adding what we may see, hear, taste, smell, or feel in a particular scene of writing. This can do wonders to create a mood for the writing and show our voice too.
I placed multiple scenes around the room and students walked around with their sticky notes to add examples of sensory language. Below, you see us analyzing our ideas and judging whether they are specific enough, make sense, and are accurate. The most important part is a safe discussion and adjustment of ideas that were not quite there yet.
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