Exploring Claude's City Adventures

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• Primary Education

Exploring Claude's City Adventures

Exploring Claude's City Adventures

Learning Objective

At the end of the lesson, you will be able to describe Claude's personality and appearance using similes.

What do you already know about describing characters using similes?

Meet Claude

Claude is a friendly dog who loves exploring the city. He is curious and always ready for an adventure.

What is a Simile?

A simile is a figure of speech that compares two different things using the words 'like' or 'as'.

Describing Appearance

Claude's fur is as white as snow. His tail wags like a happy flag in the wind.

Describing Personality

Claude is as brave as a superhero. He is as curious as a little explorer.

Interactive Activity: Simile Match

Match the simile to the correct description of Claude's appearance or personality.

Independent Task: Describe Claude

Write a short paragraph describing Claude using at least two similes for his appearance and two similes for his personality.

Review and Share

Share your descriptions with a partner and discuss the similes used to describe Claude.

Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.

Write down 2 things you want to know more about.

Here, students enter two things they would like to know more about. This not only increases involvement, but also gives them more ownership.

Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.

The students indicate here (in question form) with which part of the material they still have difficulty. For the teacher, this not only provides insight into the extent to which the students understand/master the material, but also a good starting point for the next lesson.