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Engage your students in meaningful reading and analysis with this set of 10 carefully crafted figurative language passages. Designed for upper primary classrooms, this resource supports students in identifying and understanding similes, metaphors, and personification.

Each passage has been intentionally written to include exactly five examples of figurative language, ensuring clarity, consistency, and confidence when teaching and assessing.

Perfect for explicit teaching, guided practice, or independent work, this resource helps students move beyond surface-level identification to deeper comprehension of how figurative language enhances meaning.

This teacher resource includes:

• 10 short imaginative passages including 5 examples of figurative language
• Student are guided to:
  • Identify figurative language: similes, metaphors and personification
  • Label the type of figurative language
  • Write the example from the text
• Full answer key:
  • All examples clearly identified

Format: PDF

Aligned to Australian Curriculum Outcome: Identify authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such as metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery and hyperbole. (AC9E6LA08)

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