A word mat to help students create more sensory descriptions of an underwater setting. The word mat includes several picture prompts to help with description ideas. The word mat contains lists of adjectives, adverbs, verbs, ideas for similes, metaphors and personification, and a reminder to use ISPACE sentence openers to help with sentence variety. There are also prompts to help students think about how to use the senses for this kind of setting.
There is also a power point with further picture prompts for the genre.