Setting Description Sensory Mat

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Setting Description Sensory Mat: Portrait A4 layout with a large title. Five vertical columns labelled with icons and headings: SIGHT (eye), SOUND (ear), SMELL (nose), TOUCH (hand), TASTE (tongue). Each column has a short prompt question, a 'Words to try:' list of adjectives/phrases, and lined 'Your ideas:' writing lines. Below columns: a 'DON'T FORGET' tip box with three checklist items, a 'PUT IT TOGETHER' lined box prompting 3–5 sentences, and a horizontal 'USEFUL WORDS' bank divided into Pl...

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This printable is a structured sensory mat with five labelled columns (Sight, Sound, Smell, Touch, Taste) containing example 'Words to try' and lined 'Your ideas' spaces, plus a short writing box prompting pupils to turn ideas into 3–5 sentences. It also includes a 'Don't forget' checklist of tips and a 'Useful words' bank (place, time, weather, mood, describing) to broaden vocabulary. Use it as a scaffold for modelling sensory description, guided practice or independent descriptive writing tasks.

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