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Teach students to identify similes, metaphors and personification and explain how they create vivid, nuanced meaning with this complete teaching bundle. Students compare the three devices, annotate real texts to find them, and then write their own figurative language about a theme.

Combining a lesson plan, a 45-slide editable teacher presentation, three differentiated student activities with a bonus task, an exit ticket with interpretation guide and a hands-on card sort, 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 (figurative, literal, vivid, compare), see each device modelled with a think-aloud, annotate two short texts together, and then write similes, metaphors and personification of their own.

What's included in this teaching bundle?

Teacher Slides (PowerPoint)

• 45 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 similes, metaphors and personification
• Two short texts to read and annotate together, with every annotation modelled
• 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 activities: Painting the Weather, Weather in Words and Set the Mood
• Students write a short text or poem that uses similes, metaphors and personification about the weather
• Bonus task: a figurative language poster
• Answer key and marking guide with model answers and evidence criteria

Hands-On Activity: Figurative Language Sort (PDF)

• Partner card sort: colour-code, cut and sort 15 cards into simile, metaphor and personification
• Three levels of cards so every pair can work at the right challenge
• Sorting board and card page for each level
• Teacher page with set-up, a model round, talk prompts, differentiation and answer keys for all three levels

Ideal for upper primary classrooms, this bundle provides a structured approach to teaching figurative language, combining explicit instruction, shared annotation of real texts, differentiated independent writing and an engaging hands-on sort.

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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