TheLearnDen

Year 5 · English

Discuss Author Language

Year 5 learners practise alliteration onomatopoeia and simile.

The activities include Identify Alliteration, Identify Alliteration, Onomatopoeia and Hyperbole, Identify Similes, and related practice. The checked support below includes video, worksheet, teaching, lesson. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

  • Identify Alliteration
  • Identify Alliteration, Onomatopoeia and Hyperbole
  • Identify Similes
  • Recognise Alliteration and Onomatopoeia
  • Recognise Similes and Metaphors
  • Recognise Similes, Metaphors and Personification

Checked learning resources

  • Recognising Similes and Metaphors | KS2 English Concept Video

    Twinkl · Video · Account may be required

    KS2 video explains how similes and metaphors compare things and includes independent identification questions.

  • KS2 Alliteration Worksheets

    Twinkl · Worksheet · Account may be required

    Differentiated KS2 worksheets support identifying alliteration and creating effective examples, with a word bank for support and sentence-writing challenge.

  • KS2 Onomatopoeia Activity PowerPoint Pack

    Twinkl · Worksheet · Account may be required

    Teaching pack introduces onomatopoeia and provides matching and writing activities; it complements alliteration work in the same activities.

  • Figurative Language

    BBC Bitesize · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

    KS2 teaching covers simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia and their effects.

  • Similes or Metaphors? KS2 Worksheet

    Twinkl · Worksheet · Account may be required

    Worksheet practises distinguishing similes from metaphors and explaining the comparisons they create.

  • Point Evidence Explain (PEE) Paragraph PowerPoint

    Twinkl · Teaching · Account may be required

    Teaching slides model making a point, choosing a relevant quotation and explaining how that quotation proves the point.

  • Figurative Language: Personification Differentiated Worksheets

    Twinkl · Worksheet · Account may be required

    Differentiated questions practise identifying and creating personification in sentences and short texts.

  • Poetry inspired by animals

    Oak National Academy · Lesson · Opens on the provider website

    Year 5 English resource matched to alliteration onomatopoeia and simile.