Looking for a personification resource that goes beyond simply identifying examples in isolated sentences? This comprehensive personification figurative language unit helps students in 5th, 6th, and 7th grade identify, interpret, analyse, and create personification through reading passages, poetry, author's craft activities, and purposeful writing tasks.
Students progress from learning the basics of personification to analyzing how writers use human actions and qualities to create imagery, mood, atmosphere, and character-like settings. They then apply these skills in their own descriptive and creative writing.
Included:
✓ 20 student activity pages
✓ Fiction and non-fiction reading passages
✓ Poetry
✓ Reading comprehension questions
✓ Figurative language analysis
✓ Author's craft activities
✓ Creative and descriptive writing
✓ Teacher instructions
✓ Answer key
Skills Covered
✓ identifying personification
✓ distinguishing figurative and literal language
✓ analysing figurative language in context
✓ reading comprehension
✓ author's craft
✓ poetry analysis
✓ imagery and mood
✓ word choice
✓ characterisation
✓ descriptive writing
✓ creative writing
✓ explaining textual evidence
✓ evaluating the effectiveness of language choices
Perfect For:
Perfect for upper elementary and middle school ELA, this resource provides a structured progression from figurative language practice to deeper literary analysis and writing application.
Give your students meaningful personification practice while building reading comprehension, literary analysis, and stronger descriptive writing skills.