Creek View Elementary School
Vimeo: How Does the Author Use Sensory Details to Introduce the Setting?
Watch an educator read a picture book, and practice identifying the sensory details as clues about the setting. [1:38]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Use the 5 Senses to Describe Action And/or Setting
In this lesson, students use sensory details to create images in the minds of their readers and practice adding details to appeal to the reader's senses. [7:48]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit!: Feasts & Fiction: Famous Food in Literature
Food varies wildly from place to place and from culture to culture; since humans are such sensory creatures, using words to evoke the experience of eating is an excellent way to bring a text to life. [8:57]