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Descriptive & Sensory Details
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Definition
Sensory details include sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. Writers employ the five senses to engage a reader's interest.
Lyrics
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KOOLriculcum
KMG
It’s 19
I had to do it and today the lesson is on sensory details
Versus descriptive details
Both bring your story to life and I’m going to show you exactly how
Let’s go
Let’s go
Let’s go
If you describe it use assistance and we call it sensory
But yo listen its descriptive if you’re using memory
Sensory if you can touch it, hear it or you can feel it
It’s descriptive details without the senses but its vivid
If you describe it use assistance and we call it sensory
But yo listen its descriptive if you’re using memory
Sensory if you can touch it, hear it or you can feel it
It’s descriptive details without the senses but its vivid
Okay you’ve got sensory details and you have descriptive details
Don’t get me wrong, both are actually great tools to use when you’re trying to bring your story to life
But here’s the difference with sensory details
Sensory details include like sound, touch, smell, sight, taste, you know the 5 senses
For example, say we say the sentence: I went to the store to buy some flowers. That’s an example, right?
Okay, so let’s try to use that same sentence but with sensory details.
Upon entering the store, after a long hot day I immediately recognized the cool breeze of the air conditioner within the store. Also, I immediately smelled the sweet smell of fresh baked cookies over in the bakery section but most importantly I saw what I came for the bright red roses I wanted to get my girlfriend for Valentine’s Day.
See how using words that engage your senses brought it to life more?
That’s called using sensory details
Hey, if you describe it use assistance and we call it sensory
But yo listen its descriptive if you’re using memory
Sensory if you can touch it, hear it or you can feel it
It’s descriptive details without the senses but its vivid
If you describe it use assistance and we call it sensory
But yo listen its descriptive if you’re using memory
Sensory if you can touch it, hear it or you can feel it
It’s descriptive details without the senses but its vivid
Learn up
KOOLriculcum
KMG
It’s 19
I had to do it and today the lesson is on sensory details
Versus descriptive details
Both bring your story to life and I’m going to show you exactly how
Let’s go
Let’s go
Let’s go
If you describe it use assistance and we call it sensory
But yo listen its descriptive if you’re using memory
Sensory if you can touch it, hear it or you can feel it
It’s descriptive details without the senses but its vivid
If you describe it use assistance and we call it sensory
But yo listen its descriptive if you’re using memory
Sensory if you can touch it, hear it or you can feel it
It’s descriptive details without the senses but its vivid
Okay you’ve got sensory details and you have descriptive details
Don’t get me wrong, both are actually great tools to use when you’re trying to bring your story to life
But here’s the difference with sensory details
Sensory details include like sound, touch, smell, sight, taste, you know the 5 senses
For example, say we say the sentence: I went to the store to buy some flowers. That’s an example, right?
Okay, so let’s try to use that same sentence but with sensory details.
Upon entering the store, after a long hot day I immediately recognized the cool breeze of the air conditioner within the store. Also, I immediately smelled the sweet smell of fresh baked cookies over in the bakery section but most importantly I saw what I came for the bright red roses I wanted to get my girlfriend for Valentine’s Day.
See how using words that engage your senses brought it to life more?
That’s called using sensory details
Hey, if you describe it use assistance and we call it sensory
But yo listen its descriptive if you’re using memory
Sensory if you can touch it, hear it or you can feel it
It’s descriptive details without the senses but its vivid
If you describe it use assistance and we call it sensory
But yo listen its descriptive if you’re using memory
Sensory if you can touch it, hear it or you can feel it
It’s descriptive details without the senses but its vivid
Standards
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.2.B — Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, reflection, and multiple plot lines, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.3.B — Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant evidence, using accurate, credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.3.D — Use precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.4 — Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.3 — organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.3.D — Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to capture the action and convey experiences and events.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.1.B — Provide logically ordered reasons that are supported by facts and details.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.7.3.D — Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to capture the action and convey experiences and events.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.3.D — Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.1.B — Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.5.4 — Report on a topic or text or present an opinion, sequencing ideas logically and using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3.D — Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.7.3 — Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the information or explanation presented.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.8 — take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.3.D — Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3.B — Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.7.2.B — Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.7.3.B — Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.7.2.F — Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.2.D — Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.3.D — Use precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.3 — speak clearly at an understandable pace.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.3.B — Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.2.B — Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.