Strategies for Teaching the 6 Traits

Interesting Sensory Words

Sense

Words

Sight, a-d

  • angular
  • bent
  • big
  • billowy
  • black
  • blonde
  • blushing
  • branching
  • bright
  • brilliant
  • broad

  • brunette
  • bulky
  • chubby
  • circular
  • clean
  • cloudy
  • colorful
  • colossal
  • contoured
  • craggy

  • crinkled
  • crooked
  • crowded
  • crystalline
  • curved
  • cute
  • dark
  • deep
  • dim
  • distinct
  • dull

Sight, e-l

  • elegant
  • enormous
  • fancy
  • fat
  • filthy
  • flat
  • flickering
  • fluffy
  • foggy
  • forked

  • fuzzy
  • gigantic
  • glamorous
  • gleaming
  • glistening
  • globular
  • glowing
  • graceful
  • grotesque
  • hazy

  • high
  • hollow
  • homely
  • huge
  • immense
  • light
  • lithe
  • little
  • long
  • low

Sight, m-z

  • misty
  • motionless
  • muddy
  • murky
  • narrow
  • obtruse
  • pale
  • petite
  • portly
  • quaint
  • radiant
  • rectangluar
  • reddish
  • rippling
  • rotund

  • shadowy
  • shallow
  • sheer
  • shimmering
  • shiny
  • short
  • skinny
  • small
  • soaring
  • spotless
  • square
  • steep
  • stormy

  • straight
  • strange
  • sunny
  • swooping
  • tall
  • tapering
  • translucent
  • ugly
  • unsightly
  • unusual
  • weird
  • wide
  • wiry
  • wispy
  • wizened

Thanks to Kim for sharing these words with us.

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