Sensory details

What is sensory language?

Language that connects to the 5 senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch).

Open Ended

When you think of a garden, what sensory details immediately come to mind ?

• Sight:

• Sound:

• taste:

• smell :

• touch :

pungent: when something is pungent, it has a very strong taste or smell.

• Julissa didn't want to take out the garbage because it had a very _______ smell.

Although she was blind, Gina's nose told her that she had to find shelter. The scent of rain filled the air.

What sense did the writer describe?

Match

Match the following examples of Sensory Language to their words.

• Sight

• Touch

• Taste

• Smell

• Hear

Lightning flashed in red and yellow streaks over the ocean.

As we splashed in the puddle, the water cooled us on the hot summer day.

The sweetness of the rain on our lips made us happy.

We breathed in the aroma of summer rain while we walked.

The thunder crash split the sky right above our house.

• Lightning flashed in red and yellow streaks over the ocean.

• As we splashed in the puddle, the water cooled us on the hot summer day.

• The sweetness of the rain on our lips made us happy.

• We breathed in the aroma of summer rain while we walked.

• The thunder crash split the sky right above our house.

Multiple Choice

Grandmother Workman lurched over and grabbed the pale skin of Randal's thin forearm with her leathery hand.

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The word 'leathery' appeals to which sense?

• Sight

• Sound

• Smell

• Taste

• Touch

Multiple Choice

Little grey footprints followed us in the snow.

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Which sense does this passage engage?

• Sight

• Sound

• Smell

• Taste

• Touch

Fill in the Blanks

The ferocious dogs growled, terrifying the intruder.

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Which word from this sentence appeals to the sense of sound?

Multiple Select

Select all of the words that describe sound.

• honk

• clatter

• salty

• fluffy

• shout

Multiple Choice

Randal looked ahead toward the winding spiral staircase.

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The word 'winding' appeals to which sense?

• Sight

• Sound

• Smell

• Taste

• Touch

Multiple Choice

It was too dark to see in the cave, but I tasted the tang of salt on my lips.  I must be near the ocean!  Excited, I moved toward the salty spray. 
What sense did the writer describe?

• smell
• sound
• taste
• sight

Multiple Choice

By mistake, I grabbed a pink sticky mound of gum from under the table. 

• hear
• taste
• smell
• touch

Multiple Choice

Which sense is being appealed to in this sentence?

I didn't want to get out of my warm, cozy bed this morning.

• smell

• taste

• sound

• touch

Multiple Choice

Which sense is being appealed to in this sentence?

The hot soup burned my tongue and made it numb.

• smell

• sight

• touch

• taste