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Personification

Personification Instructional Videos
Personification Song Video
Printable Lyrics
Personification is the quality of giving nonhuman objects human qualities.  We do this more often than we think in everyday oral communication.  The GrammarSong video “Personification” has a bit of an eerie feel as “non-human things act just like they’re alive!”  The video provides example after example, laying a foundation for student understanding.

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Review Video & Follow These Instructional Guidelines

Fourth Grade 

  • Complete grammar sheets “Identifying Personification.”
  1. Extra Engagement: Use the material presented within the grammar sheet as a whole class smart board or interactive white board lesson.
  • Connect the concept of personification to writing by completing the grammar sheet “Using Personification.”    
  • Look for examples of personification in real literature or when reading in a basal text.  Encourage young writers to add personification to their narratives.  

***See activities at the end of fifth grade for activities incorporating multiple types of figurative language simultaneously.

Fifth Grade

  • If necessary, review grammar sheets “Idenfifying Personification."
  1. Extra Engagment: Use the information presented within the sheets to model sentences on a white board or smart board to create a whole class lesson.  Cut the sheet apart, gluing the related answers from the answer key on the back to use within a cooperative learning structure or as a self-checking center activity.  
  • Connect the concept of personification to writing by completing the grammar sheet “Using Personification.”   
  • Look for examples of personification in real literature or when reading in a basal text.  Encourage young writers to add personification to their narratives.

***Review multiple forms of figurative language simultaneously by Using the “Figurative Language 'I Do...We Do...' Introduction” activity using a smart board or interactive white board.  Complete the “Hands-On Figurative Language Lesson.”

***As a teacher-led center activity, complete the “Analyzing Figurative Language” activity.  For independent follow-up, or using a partner or cooperative learning structure, complete grammar sheets “Figurative Language Fiesta” and “Figurative Language Comprehensive Review.”

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