Emotive Vocabulary - Presentation
This presentation introduces Year 6 students to figurative and emotive language, explaining key devices like metaphors, similes, personification, and hyperbole. Engaging examples and comparisons help students understand how authors create vivid images, strong emotions, and persuasive effects. Interactive tasks encourage analysis and practical application of these writing techniques.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to identify authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such as metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery and hyperbole.
- We are learning to investigate how vocabulary choices, including evaluative language can express shades of meaning, feeling and opinion.
Curriculum alignment
EN3-6B
old
Uses knowledge of sentence structure, grammar, punctuation and vocabulary to respond to and compose clear and cohesive texts in different media and technologies
EN3-OLC-01
new
Communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness, by interacting and presenting, and by analysing and evaluating for understanding
EN3-VOCAB-01
new
Extends Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, morphological analysis and generating precise definitions for specific contexts
EN3-RECOM-01
new
Fluently reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes, analysing text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.