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Language and Visual Features

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Language and Visual Features

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📚 WALT: We Are Learning To identify language and visual features in texts

Success Criteria:

✓ I can recognise language features like adjectives, similes, and onomatopoeia
✓ I can identify visual features like colour, font style, and images
✓ I can explain how these features affect the audience

Part 1: Language Features

1. Circle the adjectives (describing words) in this sentence:

"The enormous, fluffy cat sat on the tiny, wooden chair."

2. Which sentence contains a simile?

The dog ran quickly across the park.

Her voice was as sweet as honey.

The children played happily outside.

3. Find the onomatopoeia (sound word) in each sentence:

a) The bee went buzz around the flower. Answer: ___________

b) The door went creak when it opened. Answer: ___________

c) The rain went pitter-patter on the roof. Answer: ___________

4. Identify the repetition in this text:

"Run, run, run! The children love to run in the playground."

The repeated word is: ___________

Part 2: Visual Features

5. Match each visual feature to its purpose by drawing lines:
Bold text
Bright colours
Large images
Small font
To grab attention
To show important information
For less important details
To make text exciting
6. Why might an author use different colours in their text? Tick all that apply:

To make it look pretty

To show different emotions

To help organise information

To catch the reader's attention

7. Explain how images help readers understand a text:

Sentence starter: Images help readers because they ___________

Part 3: Create Your Own Text

8. Write a short description of your favourite animal using:

• At least 2 adjectives • 1 simile • 1 sound word

Planning box:

Animal: ___________

Adjectives I will use: ___________ and ___________

My simile: as ___________ as ___________

Sound word: ___________

9. Design a simple poster for your animal. Include:

• A catchy title in bold • At least 2 colours • One picture or drawing

10. Extension Challenge: Can you create a metaphor about your animal?

Remember: A metaphor says something IS something else (not "like" or "as")

Example: The lion is a king of the jungle.

My metaphor: ___________________________________________

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