Using the Senses to Describe a Setting

Year 3 EnglishWriting3 pages

About this worksheet

Set in a magical forest, this three-page Year 3 writing task starts with the senses. Pupils gather ideas in two tables for what they can see, hear, smell and touch. They turn their best ideas into expanded noun phrases, using the model "the glowing, blue mushrooms", then write a descriptive paragraph. The final page reminds them to use capital letters, full stops and at least two of their noun phrases. The sheet is tagged to one England National Curriculum objective on homophones.

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Using the Senses to Describe a Setting: Writing - page 1

Using the Senses to Describe a Setting: Writing - page 2

Using the Senses to Describe a Setting: Writing - page 3

Curriculum objectives covered

Writing - composition

“In narratives, creating settings, characters and plot”

The whole sheet builds one setting: four senses boxes for the magical forest, expanded noun phrases such as the glowing, blue mushrooms, then a descriptive paragraph that uses at least two of them.

What's inside this worksheet

1. Sense the Magic

Two tables ask what pupils can see, hear, smell and touch as they step into the forest. They note adjectives for each sense.

2. Expanded Noun Phrases

Pupils turn their ideas into noun phrases, with a comma between adjectives, following the example of the glowing, blue mushrooms.

3. Write your Setting Description

Space for a paragraph about the forest. A Top Tip asks for capital letters, full stops and two of the noun phrases.

How teachers use it

Shared planning

Fill in the "What can you see?" box together, then let pupils complete hear, smell and touch on their own.

After a grammar lesson

Use section 2 straight after teaching expanded noun phrases. The comma between two adjectives is the detail to check.

Marking focus

When you collect the paragraphs, look for the two noun phrases from section 2 and the spelling of hear and here.

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