identify authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such as metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery and hyperbole

How Bloomi helps with this

This is a readiness-year topic that builds towards the next NAPLAN year. Bloomi practises it as curriculum mastery, never test drilling.

What this looks like in the classroom

• exploring how figurative language; for example, metaphors, personification and idioms, can be used to create vivid and less predictable shades of meaning
• identifying authors’ use of vivid and emotive vocabulary in persuasive texts; for example, the vocabulary used in reviews
• discussing texts, using vocabulary to name text structure, literary devices and language features; for example, using words that name the literary device used in a poem