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Exploring the Five Senses

Use the five senses to notice details. For writing questions, answers will vary; include clear, specific sensory words.

Notice with Your Senses

Choose the sense that best matches each detail. For the last question, select every sense that could describe the scene.

1.Which sense helps you notice the salty scent of ocean air?
  • Sight
  • Hearing
  • Smell
  • Taste
2.Which sense helps you hear a sail flapping in the breeze?
  • Touch
  • Hearing
  • Taste
  • Smell
3.Which sense helps you feel the cool, damp rope in your hands?
  • Sight
  • Taste
  • Touch
  • Hearing
4.At the sailing club, Gabriela sees white sails, hears water tapping the dock, smells sea air, feels the breeze, and tastes a lemon slice. Select all five senses used in this description.
  • Sight
  • Hearing
  • Smell
  • Touch
  • Taste

Build Vivid Details

Complete each sentence with an original comparison or specific detail that appeals to the sense named.

5.Sight: The bright sail looked like .
6.Hearing: The waves beside the dock sounded like .
7.Smell: Near the boat shed, I noticed .
8.Touch: The rope felt beneath my fingers.
9.Taste: The orange slice tasted .

Describe a Place

Choose one setting and describe it in 2–3 sentences. Use details from at least three different senses.

10.Choose a sailing-club dock, a busy market, a snowy sidewalk, or a train station. Write the setting you chose, then describe it using at least three senses.

Write a Sensory Paragraph

Choose one event and write 5–7 sentences about it. Include details from at least three senses, and underline those sensory details.

11.Write about a first sailing lesson, a windy walk home, a celebration meal, or a visit to a lively place. Name your event and write your paragraph. Underline the sensory details.
12.List three different senses you used in your paragraph.

2 printable pages

  • Exploring the Five Senses, page 1 of 2: Notice with Your Senses, Build Vivid Details

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  • Exploring the Five Senses, page 2 of 2: Describe a Place, Write a Sensory Paragraph

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