Find and Explain Personification

Read The House on Alder Street aloud and ask students what each object seems to feel. Use the sentence sheet for independent practice.

Circle the object and underline the human action in 12 sentences, then write 2 of their own. Personification gives human actions or feelings to something that is not human. The directions on the page read: In each sentence, circle the object that is given a human action. Underline the human action. Then write two sentences of your own. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 6th Grade comprehension exercises, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with personification worksheets. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

The wind whispered through the tall pine trees is personification, because wind cannot whisper. Find and Explain Personification has 12 sentences like it.

It makes a setting feel alive. In The House on Alder Street, the gate groans, the windows stare and the chimney whistles a lonely tune.

Yes. Find and Explain Personification ends with 2 sentences of their own, each with a different object.