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Descriptive writing KS2 – Senses template and exclusive scary extract

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PDF extract, PDF senses chart template

Key Stage

KS2

Age

Years 5-6

Subjects

Descriptive writing KS2 resource

Use this senses template and the accompanying extract from Shiver Point: It Came from the Woods to help your pupils develop their descriptive writing in KS2.

The worksheet will help students concentrate on what the characters can see, hear, smell, taste, and touch. They can also jot down how the character is feeling about their situation.

National curriculum

The national curriculum states that in KS2, we should teach pupils to plan their writing by:

  • identifying the audience for and purpose of the writing; selecting the appropriate form and using other similar writing as models for their own;
  • noting and developing initial ideas, drawing on reading and research where necessary;
  • in writing narratives, considering how authors have developed characters and settings.

It also states they should be able to draft and write by:

  • selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary, understanding how such choices can change and enhance meaning;
  • in narratives, describing settings, characters and atmosphere and integrating dialogue to convey character and advance the action.

Gabriel Dylan is a teacher and author of Shiver Point: It Came from the Woods (£7.99, Piccadilly Press). Read more from Gabriel about building suspense in writing in KS2.

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