1. Shana Dorminey & Angie Tucker ECED 4300 C Dr. Tonya Root Fall 08
4th Grade
Five Senses Poetry Prewriting
Five Senses Poetry Drafting, Revising,
and Editing

2. Georgia Performance Standard:
Angie Tucker
Prewriting Five Senses Poetry
PLO:
The student will fill out a graphic organizer to write a five senses poem.
Georgia Performance Standard:
ELA4W1. The student produces writing that establishes and
appropriate organizational structure, sets a context and engages the
reader, maintains a coherent focus throughout, and signals a satisfying
closure. The student employs the following strategies:
a. Selects a focus, organizational structure, and a point of view based on purpose, genre expectations, audience, length, and format requirements.

3. What is Five Senses Poetry?
Five senses poetry is poetry written using your five senses. This type of poem is also called a sensory poem.
You can choose any topic or theme to write about, but you must involve all of your senses. Holidays, seasons, family, and other broad concepts make nice topics.

4. Introduction to Five Senses Poetry
In your poem you must address one sense in each line of the poem.
The first line should include a color, and the last line should include touch or an emotion/feeling.
Any of the other lines (sight, smell, hearing, taste,) can go in any order.
Only the first and last lines should be put in a particular order.

5. Pre-writing
Pre-writing is the stage where we get all of our ideas together and brainstorm about what we want to write about.
“Pre-writing is the getting ready to write stage.” (Tompkins, pg. 130)
We use a graphic organizer to help us get our ideas in order once we have chosen our topic.
Tompkins, G.E., (2005). Language arts: Patterns of practice (6th ed.). Columbus: Merrill.

6. Five Senses Poetry

7. Example #1 Happiness is red. It sounds like people clapping.
It smells like pizza.
It tastes like a juicy apple.
It looks like a puppy.
Happiness feels like a big hug.
Bafile, C. (2006). Education World: Ten activities for teaching the five senses. Retrieved April 08, from Miss Carol’s Class Web site:

8. Example #2
fall is orange. it tastes like orange juice. it sounds like leaves rustling. it smells like maple syrup. it looks like a tornado made of leaves. it makes me feel like jumping in all the leaves.
Chris, (2005 December 5). Mrs s and mr i student poetry. Retrieved April 13, 2008, from Room 208 and Room 209 Poetry Blog Web site:

9. Practice Activity
As a class, have the students come up with a topic that they would like to write about.
Once you have found the topic, fill out the graphic organizer.
Make sure the students understand that all squares must be filled out in order to have a complete Five Senses Poem.

10. Assessment Give the students a blank graphic organizer.
Have them come up with their own topic to write on.
The students will fill out all parts of the graphic organizer in order to meet the criteria for the assessment.
The teacher will make sure that all five senses were used in the students’ graphic organizer.

11. Georgia Performance Standard:
Shana Dorminey
Drafting Five Senses Poetry
PLO:
The student will use their graphic organizer to write a Five Senses Poem.
Georgia Performance Standard:
ELA4W1. The student produces writing that establishes and
appropriate organizational structure, sets a context and engages the
reader, maintains a coherent focus throughout, and signals a satisfying
closure. The student employs the following strategies:
a. Selects a focus, organizational structure, and a point of view based on purpose, genre expectations, audience, length, and format requirements.

12. Drafting in Five Senses Poetry
Five Senses poetry is poetry that uses your five senses to describe your topic.
The poem is usually 5-6 sentences/lines long, but can be more depending on how detailed you are.
Drafting comes after Pre-writing.
During Drafting, we use our graphic organizer to make complete ideas or thoughts.

13. Practice Activity
The students will take the graphic organizer that was filled out during the pre-writing stage and turn it into complete thoughts or ideas as a class. (This will be the draft of the poem.)
The students will give the teacher the ideas about how the sentences will be worded.
Together, the class will write a Five Senses Poem.

14. Assessment
The students will use their graphic organizer used during the pre-writing assessment to write their own Five Senses Poem.
The teacher will check to make sure that each line is a complete thought or sentence.
Did the students use what they had written in their graphic organizer to write their poem?