Lesson: Use your senses to awaken the reader
==> Bring in a can of coffee, some popcorn and anything else that has high sensory awakening properties. Place
the items in containers that mask their identity. Allow children to smell or touch the items.
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In kindergarten you learned all about your five senses. A good reader awakens a reader with their words. The writer's
words become like that fresh cup of coffee that you smell when you first wake up... or like the hot buttery popcorn that you
smell when you walk into the movie theatre.
==>There is a commercial that says " The best part
of waking up is folgers in your cup." One of the things that makes reading so fabulous is when a writer awakens our
senses as we read.
==> Today we are going to look at another book by Maclachlan. We
are going to look at how she awakens our senses with her words. As I read I want you to jot down a few words when ever
your senses are awakened. We will go back and talk about the words you wrote down at the end of the story.
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After reading allow several children to share words that they heard that awakened their senses... did it create a smell, a
sight, a feel, a sound or maybe even a taste?
==> A good writer always thinks about how
the reader will respond. They want their reader to really feel the story with all their senses. Today when you
write you might want to try to put something in to awaken the senses of your reader.
==>Let
me show you how I might to it in my piece. (model writing a piece and then going back and adding to include some things
that would awaken a reader's senses.)
