Dezarae Fillmyer

November 9, 2014
Revision Strategy
Five senses:
Sight, Hear, taste, smell, and touch
Objective: Using senses to establish a vivid setting.
Materials:
Poster paper and markers
paper and pencil
Procedure:
Boys and girls, I know that you have been working on your stories. I know that you have also
been working on show, dont tell. Today we are going to use another way to incorporate
description to our stories. Can anyone tell me what the five senses are? (Take answers) Yes the
five senses are: sight, hear, taste, smell, and touch. Now not all stories are going to have all five
of the senses and that is okay, but we can use these five senses to make our stories better.
(Teacher model)
-Make our own five senses popcorn organizer together. Have the template ready for
instruction. Have my own answers for the organizer and scaffold students to the responses that
I want. Ask students to help fill out the popcorn organizer and explain in detail the five senses
while doing so. Once the students understand move on to guided practice. Have students go
into partner talks to discuss the five senses and help each other with different answers.
(Guided practice example 1)
-Look at story that I created, skip lines, and go back in the story and show where I used the
different senses. I wrote a story and I want to use the five senses to make my story more
descriptive. Can you help me?
Story: Christopher and Mawson were going to baseball practice. When they showed up at the
field, they realized that it was cold outside and they felt they should have warn an under
armour. During warm up the bat stung their hands as they were hitting. One of the balls that
Christopher hit was a shot! He was really happy! He thought that he had a great practice and
was ready for the game tomorrow. Have students go through the story and add description

using the five senses. At the end ask the students what senses we did not use in my story and if
it is okay that we did not use them.
(Independent work)
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Now that you understand the five senses and how they can be used to enhance detail in
a story or sentence. Go back in your stories and see where you have used the five
senses or where you can add some detail. Remember you will not be able to use all five
of the senses in your story. For students that do not understand I will do more examples
with them to show them the five different senses. When students have finished adding
their detail we will be again together on the carpet and share.

(If Time)
Fun activity at desk if we can do before they go and work on their stories.
Give a cup cake and if time do the activity
The students have to pretend that they are aliens and want to send information back to their
home planet about their new discover. (object x- Hershey kiss)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Writ about what it looks like (no touching the object)

Then how the object feels
Then we write about the sound of the foil wrapper paper
Next we smell the object x
We use our sense of taste to describe the taste of the object x

*students not allowed to use the words chocolate or kiss. The students have to write at least
one sentence for each of the senses.
(Assessment)
-During whole group instruction I will assess the students through their responses and listen in
on their partner talks. During independent work I will look at the students while they are
working and make observations. If we got to the activity, I will have students hand in their
Hershey kiss story. Finally, I will be able to see if the students understand the concept and can
apply it to their stories that they have been working on.