Aim I can use similes to describe characters

Aim • I can use similes to describe characters. Success Criteria • I can read and discuss what I have read. • I can explain what a simile is. • I can match similes so that they make sense. • I can create a drawing based on a written description. • I can collect quotes and ideas from a text as information for a description.

The Aunts Glossary Read Chapter 2 of James and the Giant Peach. peculiar: strange flabby: lots of loose skin steel-rimmed spectacles: glasses with metal around the edge ghastly: really awful hags: witches hideous: really ugly Frankenstein: a monster from a film

Similes Aunt Sponge describes herself as being ‘as lovely as a rose’. What is this an example of? A simile

Similes A simile compares two different things, using the words ‘as’ or ‘like’. Examples of similes are: Top tip Try to make a comparison with something completely different as this will make your simile more powerful! Sam was as cool as a cucumber. The bus was slow like a snail.

Similes Play Similes Matching Game – Can you match the words?

Similes Answers: as big as an elephant as hard as nails as quick as lightning as cold as ice as good as gold as sick as a dog as cunning as a fox as light as a feather as slippery as an eel as fit as a fiddle as mad as a hatter as stubborn as a mule as flat as a pancake as proud as a peacock as large as life

What the Aunts are Really Like Look at your copy of Chapter 2. Now that you have practised writing some descriptive similes, you are going to create a simile descriptive drawing on the Character Description Diagram Description Hunter Activity Sheet. What adjectives, nouns and similes does the text use to tell us what the aunts are really like? Underline or highlight them.

What the Aunts are Really Like Can you turn some of these words into similes? enormously tall white flabby short piggy screeching fat overboiled cabbage lean narrow bony ghastly

Character Description Diagram You are now going to produce a character description diagram. Choose either Aunt Sponge or Aunt Spiker for your diagram. Use the clues in the chapter to draw a picture, and then put similes around the outside of your picture. simile

Aim • I can use similes to describe characters. Success Criteria • I can read and discuss what I have read. • I can explain what a simile is. • I can match similes so that they make sense. • I can create a drawing based on a written description. • I can collect quotes and ideas from a text as information for a description.