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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 real 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, expression, vivid, literal), 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 four ways: drawn as its words literally say, as imagery, as a hyperbole and as its real 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
• Each whiteboard and check-in 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, with a suggested time for each phase
• 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 answers page and an interpretation guide
• Class recording sheet (Excel) 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 and Choose an Idiom (both with a worked example) and Your Own Way (less familiar idioms and no worked example, then students invent a figurative saying of their own and use it in a short story or poem)
• Each storyboard shows one idiom four ways: the idiom (drawn as its words literally say), imagery, hyperbole and real meaning, with a drawing for each
• Bonus task: write a short story or poem with at least one idiom, two sentences of imagery and one hyperbole, then mark each device
• Answer key and marking guide with model answers and evidence criteria

Hands-On Activity: Idiom Triples (PDF)

• Card game for 2 to 4 players, run as a follow-up lesson or literacy rotation (15 to 20 minutes): collect an idiom, its real meaning and a hyperbole that says the same thing. The player with the most triples wins
• 38 cards (12 idioms, 12 real meanings and 14 hyperboles, including 2 decoys that fit no idiom), cut out before the lesson, plus blank cards for students' own triples
• How to Play page and a recording sheet (with answers)
• Teacher page with set-up, a model round, what to listen for, misconceptions, differentiation and an answer key for all 12 triples and the 2 decoys

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, PDF and Excel

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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