Writing Modelling

Book2016

What is a simile?

What is a metaphor?

WAL what the difference between a simile and a metaphor is.

WALT: Describe ourselves using similes

WALT: Craft our own ‘Who am I?’ poems

Who am I?

Can you write a ‘Who am I? poem’ about Miss

Delany?

I am as

My eyes

My ears

My brain

My nose

My heart

I am Miss Delany.

Now write a Simile Poem about yourself.

I am ...

My eyes ...

My ears ...

My brain ...

My nose ...

My heart ...

I am ___________.

1. Use Pages

2. A4 Portrait

3. Remember K.I.S.S. rule.

4. Place a photo of you in

the background (arrange

image to back, adjust

opacity, lay textbox over

image)

5. Print after Teacher Check

WALT write metaphors in our writing to create interest.

WALT craft a poem using onomatopoeia.

So what

is it?

Watch the video!

What are some onomatopoeic words?

roar boom clash crash beep meow bangwoof pop

zap pow splash slam ring knockbuzz

wham moo ribbet flash zoom slapwhoosh ding-dong

zzzzzzz chugga

CampingCrack! Crack!The fire crackles under the stars.Sizzle! Sizzle!The water sizzles above the fire.Crunch! Crunch!The campers crunching on potato chips.Click! Clack! Click! Clack!The tent poles clicking and clacking together.Rustle! Rustle!As we prepare our sleeping bags to go to sleep.Chirp! Chirp!The crickets say, “good-night”.

A poem using onomatopoeia

Now create your own

Choose an everyday event to write

a poem using onomatopoeia.

A trip to the zoo Getting ready for school

Stuck in traffic Doing housework Farm visitDay at Rainbow’s End A walk through the forest

Visiting Spookers In the kitchenAt the beach Night time In the playground

Personification - what is it?

Personification is...

WALT identify personification and understand how it is

used.

Examples of personification

The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.

My computer throws a fit every time I try to use it.

The words appeared to leap off of the paper as she read the story.

The crumpet jumped up out of the toaster.

Can you find the word/s that personify

the object?

What human traits are being personified?

Personification: Where? What human traits?

The sky is low

THE sky is low, the clouds are mean,A travelling flake of snowAcross a barn or through a rutDebates if it will go.A narrow wind complains all dayHow some one treated him;Nature, like us, is sometimes caughtWithout her diadem.

~Emily Dickinson

What is the object being personified? How?

List here the words used to personify.

Do you know this nursery rhyme?

What do you notice?

Hey diddle, diddle,the cat and the fiddle.The cow jumped over the moon;The little dog laughed to see such fun,and the dish ran away with the spoon.

What is personified? How?

Fog

The fog comes

on little cat feet.

It sits looking

over harbor and city

on silent haunches

and then moves on.

by Carl Sandburg

Now it’s your turn...

Title: What form of nature is it?

Line 1: Title + How it arrives/begins

Line 2: What does it do?

Line 3: How does it do it?

Line 4: Where is it?

Line 5: How does it leave?

WALT what are precise nouns, pronouns,

concrete and abstract nouns.

WALT: Create a personal tagxedo description using

precise nouns, pronouns, and abstract nouns

1. Go to www.tagxedo.com 2. You probably have to download it.3. In ‘Load’ add precise nouns about you. Separate

them with a comma.4. Submit5. In ‘Shape’, add image of you (a clear portrait

with a plain background).6. Adjust threshold and blur until it looks like you.7. Click ACCEPT.8. Change to Black & White theme.9. Save image to your Desktop (or Takahe 1

folder) then PRINT