Hi friends, I am Abhirami S.Nair , M.Ed student of GCTE, Thiruvananthapuram. I hope you all enjoyed the activity session. Practice more so that your vocabulary also enriches. All the best for your upcoming ventures.
Introduction
We use our senses to observe the properties of objects so that we can identify them, talk and write about them.
Task
1. Sensory words are descriptive—they describe how we experience the world:
a. how we smell,
b. how we see,
c. how we hear,
d. how we feel,
e. how we taste something.
https://34kiwis.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/sensory-word-list.pdf
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2. Write descriptive pieces, using adjectives and adverbs appropriately and with appeal to the senses.
✓Descriptive texts must be vibrant, engaging, appealing, to the senses and employs appropriate use of adjectives and adverbs to create vivid imagery in the readers mind.
Process
1.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMkQGL6X9G4
a. After watching the video list at least 5 adjectives for each of the senses.
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Smelling Seeing Hearing Touching Tasting
2. Watch video and make a table of adverbs that can be used in describing a scene at a water fall, beach, river or heavy rainfall.
3. Compose descriptive pieces about a scene at the water fall, beach, river or heavy rainfall based on prompt given:
heard
saw felt
smelled
Evaluation
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4- Excellent |
3- Very Good |
2-Satisfactory |
1-Needs Improvement |
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Ideas |
*“paints a picture” for the reader *well-focused on the topic *clear ideas are well-supported with interesting and vivid details |
*creates some clear images for the reader *focused on the topic *ideas are well-supported with details
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*sometimes strays from the topic *ideas are not well-developed *more details are needed
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*poorly focused on the topic, *ideas are unclear *few details are given
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Organization |
*well-focused on the topic *logical organization *excellent transitions *easy to follow |
*generally focused on the topic *some lapses in organization *some transitions *usually easy to follow |
*somewhat focused on the topic *poor organization *few transitions *difficult to follow |
*not focused on the topic *no clear organization *no transitions *difficult to impossible to follow |
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Introduction |
Introduction clearly states the main idea/subject of essay and captures reader's attention. |
Introduction clearly states the main idea/subject of essay but is not particularly inviting to the reader. |
Introduction clearly states the main idea/subject of essay but does not capture reader's attention. |
No attempt is made to state the main idea/subject of the essay in an introductory paragraph. |
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Word Choice |
Vibrant, engaging and appealing to the senses. Employs appropriate use of adjectives and adverbs to create vivid imagery in the readers mind. |
*fairly vibrant, engaging and appealing to the senses. Employs somewhat use of adjectives and verbs; *wording could be more specific |
*vague, mundane word choices *wording is sometimes repetitive *more descriptive words are needed |
*very limited word choices *wording is bland and not descriptive |
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Sensory Detail |
Paragraph includes details that appeal to at least three of the five senses (taste, touch, sound, sight, smell). |
Includes details that appeal to fewer than three of the five senses. |
Includes details that appeal to only one of the five senses. |
Includes no details that appeal to one of the five senses. |
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Sentence Fluency |
*uses complete sentences *varying sentence structure and lengths |
*uses complete sentences *generally simple sentence structures |
*occasional sentence fragment or run-on sentences *simple sentence structure is used repeatedly |
*frequent use of sentence fragments or run-on sentences *sentences are difficult to understand |
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Conventions |
*proper grammar, usage *correct spelling *correct punctuation *correct capitalization |
*few errors of grammar and usage *mostly correct spelling, punctuation and capitalization |
*errors in grammar, usage and spelling sometimes make understanding difficult *some errors in punctuation and capitalization |
*frequent errors in grammar, usage, spelling, capitalization and punctuation make understanding difficult or impossible |
Conclusion
Home work:
Primary English - Across the Curriculum by Roy Narinesingh and Bhadase Seetahal Maraj, page 116
Complete activities 1, 2 and 3