Lessons tagged with "simile"
Interpret Similes and Metaphors
- Grade:
- 4
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This literary response and analysis lesson focuses on identifying figurative language - specifically similes and metaphors. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify examples of similes and metaphors in a short passage and explain the meaning. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Interpret Similes & Metaphors
- Grade:
- 6
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on interpreting similes. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read sentences that include similes. Then, they identify the two things being compared and determine what they have in common. Finally, students interpret the meaning of the simile. In addition to the lesson, there are eight pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Determine the Figurative Meaning of Words in Biography/Memoirs
- Grade:
- 7
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
Determine the Figurative Meaning of Words in Informational Text
- Grade:
- 8
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
Analyze Similes
- Grade:
- 8
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading vocabulary lesson focuses on analyzing similes. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read each sentence and identify two unlike things being compared. Then, they identify what qualities the two things being compared have in common. Finally, they interpret the simile in writing. In addition to the lesson, there are eight pages of Independent Practice and review modeled on current adaptive testing methods.
Explain Effects of Words (Similes & Metaphors)
- Grade:
- Subject:
- English Language Development
This is a lesson in the Link to Literacy program.