Super Similes
Unleash the power of figurative language with this engaging resource focused on similes.
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Learning goals
- 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 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.
Curriculum alignment
AC9E5LE05
9
Create and edit literary texts, experimenting with figurative language, storylines, characters and settings from texts students have experienced
AC9E5LE04
9
Examine the effects of imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, and sound devices in narratives, poetry and songs
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-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-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
VCELT328
Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced
VCELT327
Create literary texts that experiment with structures, ideas and stylistic features of selected authors
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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