Similes & Metaphors Bingo
This bingo game will help students differentiate between similes and metaphors that are used in everyday life. They will match meanings to each statement, so they are better equipped to interpret and to use these devices effectively in texts.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to examine the effects of imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification and sound devices in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes.
- We are learning to create and edit texts by experimenting with figurative language, story lines, characters and settings.
- We are learning to understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes.
- We are learning to create texts by experimenting with structures, ideas and stylistic features of authors, e.g. narrative view point, structure of stanzas and juxtaposition.
- We are learning to identify authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such as metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery and hyperbole.
Curriculum alignment
AC9E6LA08
9
Identify authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such as metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery and hyperbole
AC9E5LE04
9
Examine the effects of imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, and sound devices in narratives, poetry and songs
AC9E5LE05
9
Create and edit literary texts, experimenting with figurative language, storylines, characters and settings from texts students have experienced
ACELA1552
8.4
Investigate how evaluation can be expressed directly and indirectly using devices, for example allusion, evocative vocabulary and metaphor
ACELY1811
8.4
Use interaction skills to present and discuss an idea and to influence and engage an audience by selecting persuasive language, varying voice tone, pitch, and pace, and using elements such as music and sound effects
ACELY1808
8.4
Use interaction skills for identified purposes, using voice and language conventions to suit different situations, selecting vocabulary, modulating voice and using elements such as music, images and sound for specific effects
ACELT1798
8.4
Create literary texts that experiment with structures, ideas and stylistic features of selected authors
ACELT1611
8.4
Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes
EN3-3A
old
Uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies
EN3-7C
old
Thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections between texts when responding to and composing texts
EN3-2A
old
Composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts
EN3-UARL-02
new
Analyses representations of ideas in literature through genre and theme that reflect perspective and context, argument and authority, and adapts these representations when creating texts
EN3-UARL-01
new
Analyses representations of ideas in literature through narrative, character, imagery, symbol and connotation, and adapts these representations when creating texts
EN3-HANDW-02
new
Selects digital technologies to suit audience and purpose to create texts
EN3-HANDW-01
new
Sustains a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style
EN3-SPELL-01
new
Automatically applies taught phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts, and justifies spelling strategies used to spell unfamiliar words
EN3-CWT-01
new
Plans, creates and revises written texts for multiple purposes and audiences through selection of text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language
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-OLC-01
new
Communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness, by interacting and presenting, and by analysing and evaluating for understanding
VCELT327
Create literary texts that experiment with structures, ideas and stylistic features of selected authors
VCELT328
Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced
VCELT316
Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
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