Developing Artistic Writing.pdf - Brevard Public Schools

Physical Cues
Objective: After reading picture books, students will identify emotions, emotion cues, and the
reason for this emotion.
Anticipatory Set: Read one of the mentor texts and point out emotions throughout the book.
Discuss other emotion words and descriptions.
Modeling: Draw a three columned table on the board. Label the tops of the columns with the
following terms:
Emotion Words Physical Cues Reasons
Overjoyed Punching the air with fist Won a competition
Merry Smiling, laughing Weekend begins
Thrilled Jumping up and down Great report card
The examples described below use “happy” for the purpose of demonstration:
• Examples of emotion words that describe happy feelings: overjoyed, merry, thrilled.
• The physical cues that often accompany happy feelings (for example, jumping up and
down, grinning, cheering, laughing, etc.) Point out to students that when they see these
“clues” in another person, that person may be happy.
• The reasons someone may be feeling this emotion. The more intense the happiness, the
stronger the emotion word.
Guided Practice: Have students brainstorm as many different feelings as they can and list them
on the board. Group similar feelings (ie angry, mad, furious, etc.) together. Working together the
students will create their own chart using the list of words from the board.
Independent Practice: Have students practice elaboration using emotions by rewriting
sentences such as, The boy was happy when he won the competition. This sentence can be
revised by adding physical cues and stronger emotion words to create a word picture for the
reader. An example would be, Punching the air with his fist, the boy was overjoyed when he
heard he won the competition.
Publishing/Sharing: Students share their new sentences.
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