Personification generators

Included in the zip folder: detailed lesson plan, presentation, four fantastic personification generators (spooky woods, old buildings - inside and outside, creepy caves and majestic mountains). You will need 1-6 dice to use the personification generators. Try them - the combinations really work!

Everything is Word/PowerPoint so you can edit and adapt as you wish.

This is a carefully planned, fully resourced and differentiated lesson about personification aimed at upper key stage 2 writers.

I used this session to create poetry with personification, but it would work equally well with descriptive writing or story settings.

The lesson is structured as follows:

• Warm up
• What is figurative language?
• What is personification?
• Can you personify your noun using one of the prompts on the screen?
• Shared writing
• 2 differentiated dice-based personification generator activities - children use these to create stunning examples of personification about spooky woods (one verse) or spooky buildings (two verse: inside/outside writing) - try it!
• Peer assessment
• There are two additional personification generators if your class are keen to do more (cave and mountains).

Fully road tested - in one session the whole class had written superb personification poems (example included on the ‘woods generator’), and they really enjoyed the spooky theme. I hope your class have the same success.