Laura White

What is a Sensory Story?

A sensory story is a narrative, book or poem that serves to activate each of the senses to encourage engagement in a range of learning situations. Sensory stories are designed to build skills ranging from engagement to knowledge recall, memory, communication, vocabulary development, social skills, literacy, movement and so on. Each has a different purpose. This may be to calm, to share experiences, purely to encourage joint attention or interaction. There are many ways to link a sensory story to learning outcomes we have written about that in our post on sensory stories and learning intentions.

This page collates all the sensory stories published on inclusiveteach.com I have included free PDF downloads with each one.