👩‍🏫 Teacher’s Guide

Objective
Students will apply personification using the examples and practice below.

Vocabulary
personification, literal

Teaching Notes

• Model one response, then ask students to work independently and explain their choices with specific words or evidence.
• Teach the rule, discuss the worked example, and cover answers during practice.
• Use incorrect responses to identify which part of the rule needs another example.
• Allow approximately 25–35 minutes, including discussion and independent practice.

🧒 Student Worksheet

Concept and Helping Material

Big Idea
Personification gives human actions or feelings to something nonhuman.

The wind knocked at the shutters. The empty chair waited for its owner.

Vocabulary and Definition

• — the figurative-language technique explained above
• — using the ordinary factual meaning

Words to Learn

personification, literal

Sentences to Fill In

1. The term for the figurative-language technique explained above is ____.
2. The term for using the ordinary factual meaning is ____.

Think & Respond Q&A

1. What human action is given to the wind?
2. What human-like action is given to the chair?
3. Does the chair literally think or wait with intention?
4. Why might an author use this language?
5. Write personification about rain.
6. Explain what the personification helps you imagine.

Hands-On Experiment or Activities

Write a short paragraph applying the skill. Underline your evidence or target words and explain one choice.

Reflection

• Explain one thing you learned.
• Write a short paragraph applying the skill. Underline your evidence or target words and explain one choice.