Sensory Story: The Blue Abyss
A Sensory Story For Sensory Learners.
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This was my first attempt at writing a sensory story. Heavily influenced by this book by the fantastically creative Joanna Grace. This session also presented a great opportunity to use Sensory Umbrellas as demonstrated by Flo Longhorn. I have recently started at a new school and have the privileged to work with a whole range of specialists including speech and language therapists and OT’s. There is a specialist team of support staff working with children with a range of needs I have not previously taught. Under their guidance I came up with this sensory story and delivered it in a session.
Part of the purpose of a sensory story is to build a sense of anticipation as the children become familiar with each aspect. So you can refine and reuse these resources for a number of sessions, adding those that any child finds aversive or unmotivating. You can download the story at the bottom of this post. I have written this post on sensory learning that may be of interest,
The Sensory resources
I am a fan of reusing materials where possible so most of this story was resourced with bits I had lying around or borrowed from other classrooms (mainly the art room!). This is a list of the equipment and sensory resources used for each page of the story. Most of the children have PMLD (Profound and multiple learning difficulties) so I had to be mindful of how each piece of equipment would be used.
Page 1 – The Beach
Page 2 – The Shell
Page 3 – The Whale
Page 4 – Seaweed
Page 5 – Bubbles
Page 6 – The Octopus
Page 7 – Shark!
Download the Sensory Story book
Read/Download my sensory story written primarily for the Blue Abyss topic for our KS3 PMLD group. This is a word document so fully editable if you don’t like my attempts at Rhyming! Please share If you find it useful.
View the Video and Sound Effects used.
All images supplied by the awesome website Unsplash. I would love to hear your (constructive) feedback on this, it was my first attempt at writing a social story!
Check out our other sensory stories.
- Snow Bear (Winter/Climate Change story)
- Autumn Forest
- Odysseus and the fall of Troy
- The Human Body
I love your sensory book! Let me try to read together with my 15 y-o autistic son Kyan. And let you know again his response. Appreciate that you share your resources to help others.
That would be great, this will be the first of a few so any feedback gratefully recieved