Students explore how authors use figurative language to paint 'word pictures' by identifying comparisons using 'like' and 'as' in the text, and co-constructing similes about the natural world.
Students combine their cumulative learning of sensing verbs, prepositional phrases, and comparisons to co-construct and independently draft a descriptive paragraph about an outback landscape, utilizing a multi-tiered writing frame.
Students learn how prepositional phrases give information about 'where' and 'when' events occur, practicing adding them to simple sentences containing sensing verbs to build descriptive detail.