Describe Sensory Details

Building academic language

Word

• Hand out the Vocabulary Cards to students. As you go over each word, have students locate the card for the word you are reviewing.
• Tell students when we look for things we see, we are using our sense of sight. Explain that senses help us to learn about the world around us. For example, when we notice how things sound, we are using our sense of hearing.
• There are five senses. We use our senses when we hear, see, smell, taste, and touch.

Sentence

• Look at one of the pictures in the book you used for the picture walk.
• Show students the Wake Up Senses worksheet. Think aloud as you think about how your five senses might be used if you were in the picture in the book.
• Fill out the worksheet, drawing pictures to describe how you might use each sense. Write words to complete the sentences.
• Hand out the worksheet to students. Have them find a picture in a book to use when filling out their own worksheets and completing their own sentences.

Discourse

• Have students work in pairs to discuss how they might use their five senses if they were in the pictures they chose. Ask students to use the sentence frames in the worksheets (and the sentences they wrote) to guide their discussions.
• Encourage students to show each other their pictures and use the following sentence frame to anchor their discussions: "In this picture there is ____.