English Unit: Emotive Vocabulary
This engaging unit of work guides students through the concept of figurative language, focusing on how authors use vivid and emotive vocabulary to enhance meaning and persuade readers. It includes five progressive worksheets, a whole-class activity, a small-group game, visually appealing posters, a student reference card, and a detailed assessment with a rubric. Designed to cater to diverse learners, this resource encourages exploration, creativity, and critical thinking.
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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.