Five Senses Poem Lesson #7

Five Senses Poem Uses your senses to study or investigate a subject. The focus of the poem is on using similes. Similes are comparisons between two unlike things using the words “like” or “as.”

Five Senses Poem Line 1: Tell what color an emotion or ideas LOOKS like to you. Line 2: Tell what the emotion or idea TASTES like (imagine it has a taste). Line 3: Tell what the emotion or idea SOUNDS like. Line 4: Tell what the emotion or idea SMELLS like. Line 5: Tell what the emotion or idea LOOKS like. Line 6: Tell how the emotion or idea makes you FEEL.

EXAMPLE: Summer is yellow. It tastes like lemonade. It sounds like kids splashing in a lake. It smells like dandelions. It looks like boating. It makes me feel overjoyed.

EXAMPLE: Summer is softball, sun, and swimming. It tastes like watermelon and Diet Coke. It sounds like birds chirping and mowers mowing. It smells like tanning lotion and freshly cut grass. It looks like kids outside playing and swimming. It makes me sad thinking about its end.

EXAMPLE: Rain is clear. It tastes like water. It sounds like pounding on your windows. It smells like fresh pine trees. It looks like dew drops on plants. It makes me feel cool.

EXAMPLE: Softball is a pitcher’s mound. I taste sunflower seeds and sweat. I hear the fans yelling my name. I smell popcorn and grass. I see the batter staring me down. I feel relieved as I strike out the batter.

Let’s try a couple… School Nachos Taylor Swift Sandy Hook Elementary School Wind

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