Key learning points

1. Senses help us to experience and describe the setting, in this case, the forest.
2. The five senses are sight, smell, hearing, touch and taste.
3. An adjective or list of 2 adjectives can describe a noun, such as "wild forest" or "noisy, chirping birds".
4. Using descriptions with adjectives makes writing more interesting.
5. The joining word "and" can be used to join to complete ideas into a full sentence.

Keywords

• Setting - where the story takes place

• Sense - the physical abilities of sight, smell, hearing, touch and taste

• Adjective - a word that describes a noun

• Expanded noun phrase - a group of words with no verb that adds detail to a noun

• Sentence - an idea that makes complete sense including a verb

Common misconception