This document provides writing prompts and exercises for students to practice using sensory imagery and details. It includes prompts for students to write about contrasting images, sounds, tastes, smells, touch, and sights. The prompts encourage using specific and vivid descriptive language focused on the five senses. Students will complete short written responses to the prompts both in class and as homework.

1. List in Writer’s Notebook
 Brainstorm pairs of
contrasting images.
 Can you find two as
strikingly different
as kitties and guns?
Flowers and rocks?

2. Class List…

3. Quick write (WNB)
 Pick your favorite pair.
 Develop each image with specific details, arranging
the two images in alternating lines or sentences in a
poem/paragraph.

4. Share/Discuss…
 What effects do you achieve?

5. “The Giant Water Bug”
 Discuss
 Submit responses

6. Open Mic Model Session
 Mrs. Mundy

7. More with Sensory Imagery
Show & Tell/ Childhood Images – see
worksheet.
Use the object you brought in or a childhood
object to complete the handout.

8. More with Imagery
I’LL COLLECT THESE NEXT EXERCISES.

9. Sound - Paper
 Choose a place or time of day you know well and
write about how it sounds.
 You might find yourself using words that start with
the same letter (alliteration) and words that sound
like what they’re describing (onomatopoeia).

10. Taste - Paper
 Help yourself to a piece of candy. OR, pass and
imagine you’re eating something else.
 When it first enters your mouth (before you chew),
what does it taste like?
 Bite into it and write down what it tastes like as the
flavor moves through your mouth.
 Chew it and describe the taste. Does it change?
 Now, swallow or spit it out and describe the taste left
in your mouth.
 Compare the taste to other tastes

11. Smell - Paper
 Write down three smells you are aware of right now
(cleaner, perfume/cologne, food, wood, books, etc.)
 Think of what one of the smells reminds you of.
 Write about it for a minute or two.

12. Touch - Paper
 Think of something you are very familiar with
touching– an article of clothing, a piece of
technology, an animal, part of your house, etc.
 Write about the feel of it in detail.
 Compare it to something else.

13. Sight
 Locate any object in the room.
 Describe what this object looks like without relying
on adjectives.

14. Homework
 Write in your WNB.