Five-Senses Poetry

Abbey Williams and Erin Harkness, ECED 4300 A, Fall 2009

Five-Senses Poetry Erin Harkness & Abbey Williams

4300—A Dr. Tonja RootFall 2009


Erin Harkness- PrewritingELA5W1. The student produces writing that establishes an appropriate organizational structure, sets a context and engages the reader, maintains a coherent focus throughout, and signals a satisfying closure. The student …


Erin Harkness-Prewriting ContinuedA. selects a focus, an organizational structure and a point of view based on purpose, genre expectations, audience, length, and format requirements.


Prewriting PLOStudents will use their five senses to complete a graphic organizer about five-senses poetry.


Form and Stage of WritingForm: Five-Senses Poetry◦Express five senses using poetry

◦Sight, smell, touch, hear, & taste

Stage: Prewriting


Graphic OrganizerObjects in a bag: ◦What does it feel like? ◦What does it smell like? ◦What does it sound like?◦What does it taste like?◦What does it look like?


Graphic Organizer ReferenceUsing Your Senses Graphic Organizer. (2007). Retrieved October 24, 2009, from ReadWriteThink: http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson1104/Using%20your%20senses.pdf


Published Five-Senses PoetryPublished piece Wonderful World, by Eva Grant

I can seeTrees in grass,

The sun and sky;


Published Five-Senses Poetry Continued

I can tasteChocolate ice cream

Apple pie;I can hear

Music, laughter, Words you said;



I can smellPerfume, flowers,

Baking bread;I can touch

Silk and velvet,A baby’s skin;



What a wonderfulWorld I’m in!


Reference for Published Five-Senses PoetryGrant, E. (n.d.). My Five Senses. Retrieved October 24, 2009, from Tooter4Kids: http://www.tooter4kids.com/classroom/5_senses_poetry.htm


Abbey Williams-DraftingELA5W4 The student consistently uses a writing process to develop, revise, and evaluate writing. The student…◦A. Plans and drafts independently and resourcefully.


Drafting ELA5W2 The student demonstrates competence in a variety of genres.◦D. Includes sensory details and concrete language to develop plot and character.


Drafting PLOA. Students will plan a draft of a five senses poem.

B. Students will write a poem using sensory details.


Form and Stage of WritingForm: Five-Senses Poetry◦Express five senses using poetry

◦Sight, smell, touch, hear, & taste

Stage: Drafting◦2nd Stage


Published Five-Senses PoemThe Five-Senses

The smell of a vanilla cupcakes sprinkled with

jimmies,Is soft and sweet like the

sound of a singing humming bird

On a small apple tree.


Published Five-Senses Poem Cont…The taste of warm apple

pie warms you all the way to your toes

Like taking a warm bath in the middle of a snow

storm.


Published Five-Senses Poem Cont…The sight of a new born

baby sleeping on his mother,

Is like having all happiness and

gratefulness by your side.


Published Five-Senses Poem Cont…The sound of the ocean

waves crashing upon the shore,

Is as breathtaking as watching the sun set on

a sandy island.


Published Five-Senses Poem Cont…

The feeling of the sun washed, pink Bermuda sand running through

your toesAs you walk down the beach is like taking the sun down and giving it

a great big hug.


Five-Senses ReferenceOcean, M. (1993). The Five Senses. Retrieved October 24, 2009, from Poem hunter: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-five-senses/


Practice ActivitySmall groupsGraphic organizerUse 5 senses to describe one of the objects from the bag

Write a poem within groups


Assessment Personal five-senses poem

Five-Senses Poetry

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