Year 5 Fiction: Using Similes

We have been learning all about similes:


Task
Please complete the 'Tank' simile task.

Due: Thursday
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Year 5 Comprehension - Analysing the Use of Similes

A simile is the comparison of two unlike things using the word 'like' or 'as', e.g. as big as a bus. Click here to play a similes matching game.

Please complete the comprehension. Don't forget to use the following when answering questions 3-5:

The author is comparing...to...
This is an effective comparison because...
The author wants the reader to feel...

Due: Wednesday.

Year 5 - Creating Similes

L.O. To revise creating similes
In class you created similes based on a tank. You can download another copy of this task from my box at box.net.

Homework: Create a poster defining similes (like the example above, e.g. a simile compares two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'), and an illustration featuring your best simile that you created in class, e.g. The gun was like an angry mouth spitting out foul language.

This is an example of visual learning - creating a colourful poster will help you to embed in your memory the definition of a simile!

Year 5 - D-Day Comprehension

L.O. To recognise the use of similes in a passage; to be able to explain the comparison being made in a simile

Still not sure about similes? Have a go at one of these downloadable simile worksheets.

Learn more about questions about similes here.

Task: Please complete the D-Day landing comprehension
Due: Wednesday

Learn more about D-Day here.

Year 5 Comprehension - Simile questions

L.O. To understand that comprehension questions about the author's use of similes require one to discuss the comparison being made.

In class, we revised similes, and discussed how to answer questions about similes in comprehension. Revise how to answer comprehension simile questions by clicking here (read this before answering question 3!). (

Don't forget to annotate the passage before you begin. You may find it useful to listen again to my comprehension podcasts before you start writing.

Task: Please complete the 11+ Haberdashes' Aske's paper on the sheet of A4 provided.