#1773. creative writing / using the senses
Reading/Writing, level: all
Posted Mon May 22 05:56:27 PDT 2000 by victoria adams (
vickster120@hotmail.com).
st peter's, birmingham
Materials Required: worksheet or write table on board
Activity Time: 1 hour (v. flexible)
bring 3 bags of sweets into the lesson. each child can choose 1 sweet. i brought chocolate, mint and fruity. the sweet is put on the table infront of them.
worksheet or copy table onto board:
sight sound taste smell touch1
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3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
using a thesaurus fill in the 10 words for each sense relating to the experience of eating the sweet. result = 50 adjectives.
circle 10 favourite adjectives.
use them in a paragraph describing the sweet.
this process can be adapted to write any description - collecting adjectives first, using all of the senses.
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