🎯 WALT: We Are Learning To use descriptive language to create imagery in our writing.

Success Criteria: I can identify and create similes, metaphors, and personification. I can choose precise adjectives and verbs.

📝 Part 1: Brainstorming Descriptive Words

The Ocean: ________________________________

Maui's Fishhook: ________________________________

The Giant Fish (Te Ika): ________________________________

Maui himself: ________________________________

How the ocean moves: ________________________________

How Maui pulls: ________________________________

How the fish struggles: ________________________________

🎨 Part 2: Categorising Figurative Language

a) "The ocean roared with anger"

b) "Maui's fishhook was like a gleaming crescent moon"

c) "The giant fish was a mountain rising from the depths"

Write a simile (using 'like' or 'as'):

Write a metaphor (saying something IS something else):

Write personification (giving human qualities to non-human things):

⭐ Writing Activity - Create a Poem to show the key events of Te Ika a Mauī using descriptive language.

Make sure you include simile, metaphor, personification and precise adjectives and verbs!