Fun Writing Exercise:

Authors Write Using More than One Sense

Engage your students with this fun hands-on writing activity.

Tell students that they can make their writing more interesting by using their sense of sight, taste, and touch. 

Materials:

2 or 3 different fruits that can be divided and sampled by all students.

*Chart Paper to record group response

Marker

Writing paper

Procedure:

Guided Practice and Modeling:

1. Select one fruit to use in a whole group writing demonstration.

2. Show students the fruit.

3. Ask the students to describe the fruit's appearance. 

4. Record the group's response on the chart paper.

5. Let students handle the fruit.

6. As a group, write about what the fruit feels like.

7. Wash and cut up fruit so that all students can sample it.

8. Tell students that they are to taste the fruit.

9. They tell what the taste reminds them of, and describe the flavor.

10. Record their responses on chart paper.

11. As a group, rewrite responses into good sentences and paragraph form.

Independent Practice:

1. Pass out the writing paper and the remaining fruit samples.

2. Students use their sense of touch, taste, and sight to write their observations about the fruit.

*About Charts:  You may want to keep this valuable chart as a reference for future writing projects. It will remind students to write using more than their sense of sight.