Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Imagery and Figurative Language (Grade 6)
This lesson focuses on the use of imagery and figurative language in writing to aid understanding and create images in the mind.
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abcteach
Abcteach: Personification Form [Pdf]
Form reinforces the concept of personification with examples and room for students to create their own.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Elements of Poetry
Discover how literary techniques like figurative language, imagery, and symbolism contribute to the overall meaning of a poem. Explore how a poet establishes and builds on a theme and the difference between tone and mood. Through a close...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Literary Elements and Techniques Collection
These animated shorts introduce or review literary elements and techniques like theme, setting, figurative language, characterization, and conflict. They can be used when students are just learning how to identify the most commonly used...
Math Slice
Math Slice: Jumanji Slice Special Test
Test your knowledge of familiar idioms with this succinct quiz. Assessment is scored online and could possibly be used as an assessment tool.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Paper Plate Simile Books
Students experience the fun and creativity of similes, ultimately describing themselves using comparisons and illustrations. The students' final product is a paper plate book of illustrated personal similes.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Voice Building Poetry Lesson: Four Metaphor Poetry
Inspired by Mem Fox's Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge which includes four metaphors for memory, this writing prompt asks students to think of an original abstract noun. Students will brainstorm details as they come up with ideas for...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: So Much Depends Upon
In this lesson young scholars will write a descriptive short story based upon 16-word imagery poems they have previously written.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Between Repeated Lines
In this lesson plan young scholars will write a poem about someone they love after they have brainstormed an original idea.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Backwards Writing Assignment
In this lesson students will create a backwards poem based on descriptive settings and characters.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Death Personified
In this lesson, students will personify an object within a poem. They will focus on voice and word choice in order to fully convey their message.
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Analyze Language Choices
Learn about figurative language and how to determine the figurative, denotative, and connotative meanings of words.
Other
Wasatch County School District: Types of Context Clues [Pdf]
This chart clearly defines types of context clues that help students master unfamiliar vocabulary. Potential signal words and examples are provided.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Lonely as a Cloud: Using Poetry to Understand Similes
Students identify similes in poetry and gain experience in using similes as a poetic device in their own work.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Teaching Personification Through Poetry
This lesson plan examines the use of personification in the "great poets." Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
Quia
Quia: Bud, Not Buddy: Similies and Metaphors
These games use the similes and metaphors from the novel Bud, Not Buddy. There are three games: Flashcards, Matching, and Concentration. Flashcards has half of the simile/metaphor on each side of the card; Matching has students match the...
Quia
Quia: Literary Devices
This word search asks students to locate quoted examples of literary devices using the word bank provided. Java is required.
Quia
Quia: Battleship
Sink your opponent's ships by answering metaphor questions. Select skill level and reposition your ships before beginning the game.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Mathematical Recipe Metaphors
In this lesson, Barry Lane's books entitled Reviser's Toolbox and 51 Wacky We-Search Reports are used as mentor texts. Used as a refeference, the concept of recipe poems can be instructed to the students and the genre of "how to" books,...
Other
How to Study: Building Vocabulary: Using Context Clues to Learn Word Meaning
This resource explains six ways authors use context clues that might help readers understand unfamiliar words. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.4, 8.2.B
Other
Sacramento City College: What Are Context Clues?
This screen is the first of a series of slides about using context clues. It defines context clues. The following screens contain examples and tips on how to use and interpret context clues. Use the Next buttons to complete the...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Figurative Language Awards Ceremony
Contains plans for five to seven lessons that teach about figurative language like similes, metaphors, and personification by asking students to write award acceptance speeches that incorporate them. In addition to objectives and...
Quia
Quia: Matching: Literary Devices
This matching game has students match examples of literary devices (yellow boxes) with the terms (blue boxes). There are multiples of each, but each set is matched to a specific box. Java is required.
Savvas Learning
Pearson Education: Longman Vocabulary Website: Using Context Clues: Word Clues
This site offers a review of using context clues, along with three progressively more difficult practice exercises. Students match the highlighted word in the sentence with its meaning using a pull down box. In the third exercise, the...