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#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 touch

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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.