Year 4 · English · Writing
Describing and comparing
Choose specific words, use similes and metaphors, and add phrases that show when and where.
Everything for this topic in one place
- 3D lesson: Describing and comparing — Upgrade general words to specific ones, show feelings, build similes and metaphors, and move when and where phrases to the front with a comma, with Kiri.
- Teacher presentation — slides to put on the projector.
- Worksheets at three levels — Tūī (support), Kererū (core) and Kea (extension), each with an answer key on the last page.
- Online practice — assign it to your class in the Crateclass classroom and the results come back by themselves.
Written for Te Mātaiaho, Phase 2 (Years 4–6), with New Zealand places, money and native birds.
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