Reflective Journal - Vocabulary (White Tiger)

 

Selection, Explain, Explore & Consolidate

Words more specific to context/text: 

Caste, rickshaw, gulab jamun

Words that are more transferrable in writing and perhaps need more time spent on them: 

Destiny, cunning, lean 

Consolidate

Teaching figurative language

Children may find it hard to understand figurative language as they do not have the exposure and experience to make links and connections between words and language. 

Teaching figurative language in writing

Choose a subject to focus on e.g. an emotion

Compare it to an animal/object/colour 

Greedy as a pig 

Sly as a fox

Wise as an owl 

Loneliness is a grey, looming cloud