Describe a Setting With Similes

Year 4 EnglishSimiles3 pages

About this worksheet

A Year 4 planning and writing sheet set in a forest at night, over three pages. Page one shows a path through old trees under a full moon. Pupils fill a three-row organiser headed I can see, I can hear and I can feel, with a detail and a simile in each row. On page two they write a five-sentence description using at least three of their similes and tick a checklist. The key has a sample organiser and a model five-sentence description. It follows England National Curriculum writing for years 3 and 4.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Writing - composition

โ€œIn narratives, creating settings, characters and plotโ€

The organiser builds the setting through sight, sound and touch before pupils write the description.

Reading - comprehension

โ€œDiscussing words and phrases that capture the reader's interest and imaginationโ€

Pupils choose comparisons that suit the picture, and the checklist asks them to avoid worn-out ones.

What's inside this worksheet

Plan Your Similes

A wide picture of a forest at night, then a table with rows for I can see, I can hear and I can feel. Pupils write a detail and a simile for each, with twisted branches like bony fingers as the model.

Describe the Forest

Ten lines for five sentences that use at least three similes from the organiser.

My Simile Checklist

Three tick boxes: five full sentences with capitals and full stops, like or as in at least three similes, and fresh similes rather than tired ones such as as black as coal.

Answers

Two sample entries for each row of the organiser and a model description with four similes.

How teachers use it

Picture walk

Show the picture on the board and describe the forest in plain sentences while pupils listen with eyes closed. Then ask what the plain version is missing.

Plan then write

Do the organiser in one lesson and the description in the next. The gap helps pupils who rush to start writing.

Checklist swap

Pairs swap page 2 and tick each other's checklist, underlining every simile they find.

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