Create powerful, image-creating sentences by taking the “Boring Sentence” and adding sensory details. Make up additional details to construct the new sentence. Label the sensory details you added.
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Sensory Details Worksheet Sensory Details Worksheet Worksheet
Adding Details adds Interest
Sensory details allow the reader to put themselves into your story mentally by forming a picture in
his/her mind. Without sensory details, the reader becomes bored and cannot emotionally connect to the
story. Sensory details include words that describe sights, sounds, and smells of the setting, characters,
and interactions.
Directions: Create powerful, image-creating sentences by taking the “Boring Sentence” and adding
sensory details. Make up additional details to construct the new sentence. Label the sensory details you
added.
Example: Example:
Boring Sentence: It was a cold morning at Arlington High School.
New Sensory details added: The frigid morning air and dense gray fog did not stop Jane from inhaling
the fresh smell of rain from the damp concrete and yelling across the Arlington quad, “Good morning,
Joe!”
• Sights: ______________________________Sounds: _____________________________
• Smells: ______________________________
1. Boring Sentence: English class is fun.
Sensory details added: ______________________________________________________________
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• Sights: ______________________________Sounds: _____________________________
• Smells: ______________________________
2. Boring Sentence: The cookies were good.
Sensory details added: ______________________________________________________________
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• Sights: ______________________________Sounds: _____________________________
• Smells: ______________________________
3. Boring Sentence: Mom cooked dinner last night.
Sensory details added: ______________________________________________________________
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• Sights: ______________________________Sounds: _____________________________
• Smells: ______________________________
4. Boring Sentence: The park was pretty.
Explanation:
hope it helps you
A boring sentence is typically a sentence that is based on a very uninteresting event.
- Boring sentence: We sleep at night
- Sensory details added:
- After the days hard work of carrying woods up and down the snow clad hills, we finally go to bed to claim the well deserved sleep.
- Boring sentence: The mountains were beautiful.
- Sensory details added:
- The beauty of the colossal mountains was augmented by the white cover of snow upon the trail and atop the tall pine trees.
- Boring sentence: The cake was good.
- Sensory details added:
- Decked with three layers of bread and enhanced by creamy layer of icing on the top, the cake was mouth watering.
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