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Abstract
The focus of this lesson is identification of descriptive
language (i.e., sensory imagery) in writing and telling how it
enhances the story.
Lesson fundamental understandings:
Essential
Questions: a. Descriptive words enhance the sensory
images presented to the reader.
b. Sensory words and phrases
invoke all five senses (sight, hearing, taste, smell, and
touch).
c. When sensory words are eliminated, the story is
reduced to a literal telling.
Standards
National Standards Students employ a
wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing
process elements appropriately to communicate with different
audiences for a variety of purposes.
State Standards 6.6.1 Generate ideas for
writing by responding to a visual stimuli such as objects and
photographs.
Lesson
Prerequisite Skills
Students will be able to identify and list adjectives, adverbs,
and verbs, and specific nouns.
Teacher
Information/Situations/Setting/Time Time Frame: 1-2 50
minute periods
Materials/Resources: pencil, paper, pictures and
photos to be described
Pre-lesson preparation: Lists of sensory
adjectives, vivid verbs, pictures and photos that invite
description
Assessment
Journal entries, including items from scavenger hunt.
Student Activity/Tasks 1. The students
listen to teacher-read story presented on the overhead.
2. After
the selection has been read several times, students participate in a
whole-class discussion on why descriptive language makes a story
more effective due to the images created.
3. The students write
a short journal entry on why they think descriptive language makes a
story more effective.
4. The teacher divides the class into
their small groups and participate in a descriptive language
scavenger hunt, locating examples rich in sensory images from
various sources, including books from the classroom home, samples
from the internet.
Enrichment/Alternate Activity:
The students work in pairs to read their selection while their
partners draw the images that come to mind.
Cross-Curricular:
Art, Reading
Technology
Requirements/Tools/Materials
Computer optional
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Career Connection to Teaching with Technology
USDOE Technology Innovation Challenge Grant
Marshall Ransom, Project Manager
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