Year 6 · English · Reading for SATs · Lesson 5

Explaining the writer's language

SATs reading: explaining the writer's language and its effect, with simile, metaphor, personification and short sentences, using an original descriptive text.

13-minute video lesson

Teaching, worked examples and 20 practice questions solved step by step.

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What your child will learn

Identify language techniques
Explain the effect on the reader
Use short quotations
Describe mood

The method

Name it.
Quote it.
Picture?
Feeling?

Key words: simile, metaphor, personification, effect, mood.

Worked examples

The first three practice questions from the lesson, with every step.

Question 1

What is a simile?

Step 1: like / as

Answer: a comparison using ‘like’ or ‘as’

Question 2

What is a metaphor?

Step 1: Is

Answer: saying something IS something else

Question 3

What is personification?

Step 1: Human

Answer: giving human actions to non-human things