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Teach students to understand how idioms, imagery and hyperbole create vivid and meaningful expressions with this complete teaching bundle. Students work out the literal meaning behind an idiom, recognise imagery that appeals to the senses, explain the effect of exaggeration, and then show one idiom four ways on a storyboard.

Combining a lesson plan, a 42-slide editable teacher presentation, three differentiated student activities with a bonus task, an exit ticket with interpretation guide and a hands-on card game, this curriculum-aligned bundle provides everything you need to teach the lesson from start to finish.

Built around the I Do, We Do, You Do model, students move from explicit teacher modelling to guided practice and independent application. They learn the words we need (idiom, imagery, hyperbole, literal, senses), see each device modelled with a think-aloud, interpret familiar idioms together, create sentences using imagery, and then complete a storyboard that shows an idiom as an idiom, as imagery, as hyperbole and as its literal meaning.

What's included in this teaching bundle?

Teacher Slides (PowerPoint)

• 42 editable, ready-to-teach slides following the I Do, We Do, You Do structure
• Clear learning intention and success criteria
• Explicit explanations and worked examples for idioms, imagery and hyperbole
• Guided practice interpreting idioms, creating imagery and spotting exaggeration
• Mini whiteboard and partner check-ins throughout
• Every question slide followed by an answer slide

Lesson Plan and Exit Ticket (PDF)

• Complete I Do, We Do, You Do lesson plan for a 45 to 60 minute lesson
• Diagnostic, formative and summative assessment points
• Key vocabulary, teacher notes and common misconceptions
• Check-ins for understanding linked to the matching slides
• Exit ticket (two per page) with an interpretation guide
• Class recording sheet to track results and plan next steps

Differentiated Student Activities (PDF)

• Activity overview to help you match each option to your students
• Three differentiated storyboard activities: A Lot on My Plate (with a worked example), Choose an Idiom and Your Own Way
• Each storyboard shows one idiom four ways: idiom, imagery, hyperbole and literal meaning, with a drawing for each
• Bonus task: write a short story or poem that uses an idiom, imagery and hyperbole
• Answer key and marking guide with model answers and evidence criteria

Hands-On Activity: Idiom Triples (PDF)

• Card game for 2 to 4 players: collect an idiom, its literal meaning and a matching hyperbole
• 36 cards (12 idioms, 12 literal meanings, 12 hyperboles) plus blank cards for students' own triples
• Student task card and recording sheet
• Teacher page with set-up, a model round, talk prompts, misconceptions and differentiation

Ideal for upper primary classrooms, this bundle provides a structured approach to teaching figurative language, combining explicit instruction, guided interpretation, differentiated storyboards and an engaging hands-on game.

Formats: PowerPoint and PDF

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

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