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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Their Eyes Were Watching God: Folk Speech, Figurative Language

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For this lesson plan, students will consider Their Eyes Were Watching God: Folk Speech and Figurative Language. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab. This lesson provides students with an...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Figurative Language: Shakespeare

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This learning module provides remediation and extra practice with identifying figurative language techniques found in excerpts written by William Shakespeare. A worksheet is available to help reinforce the concept of figurative language...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Figurative Language Worksheets

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This learning module provides remediation and extra practice with identifying different types of figurative language. Reinforcement is provided through the worksheets, quizzes, video game links, and online sites for the following types...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Figurative Language Activities

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Numerous activities, games, quizzes, lessons, and PowerPoint presentations are provided for the topic of "figurative language" in writing. Students will have numerous exposures to examples. Students will also be able to practice...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Writing Narratives

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Notes, a PowerPoint presentation, two videos, a song, an exercise, and a game help students to understand how to write a narrative. Elements of a narrative as well as the use of figurative language and sensory images are introduced and...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Imagery and Figurative Language (Grade 8)

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
Make complex inferences and use textual evidence such as imagery and figurative language to support understanding.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Importance of Figurative Language: Practice 3 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read a text and understand how the figurative language of a literary work contributes to its historical and cultural setting.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Imagery: Simile and Metaphor (English I Reading)

For Students 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Identify the similes and metaphors in a text and evaluate their importance to the meaning of the text. RL.9-10.5 text structure effects
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Literary Nonfiction

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
Learn how to analyze literary nonfiction, particularly speeches, by making inferences and drawing conclusions based on evidence in the text.
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Other

Travis Unified School District: Figurative Language Terms in Julius Caesar [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A one-page chart listing figurative language terms used in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, along with definitions and examples.
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Handout
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Reading and Interpreting Literary Texts: Literary Terms: A Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a guide to poetic literary terms such as meter and an explanation of several types of meter, types of stanzas, types of rhyme, etc.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Monster of the North

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the skeleton of a plesiosaur, a giant sea monster, found by scientists near the North Pole. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Wonderful Trees

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A poem about trees by Arin Lapa. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Polish Tone, Style, and Figurative Language (English Ii Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will learn strategies for evaluating and revising the tone, style, and figurative language in an essay.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Eating Together

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story, article or poem is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Columbus

For Students 7th - 9th
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story, poem, or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Blizzard

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story, poem, or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: "What Love Isn't" by Yrsa Daley Ward

For Students 7th - 8th
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Egg

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story, article or poem is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words...
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Read Works

Read Works: Welcome Back!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares advice about how to make the first day of school a great one. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Literary Terms Lesson Plan

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
This is a lesson plan for teaching the seven literary terms used in poetry: simile, metaphor, alliteration, imagery, hyperbole, personification, and onomatopoeia.
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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Literary Terms to Know in Seventh Grade

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This site lists and briefly defines the literary terms 7th graders should know including types of writing, literary devices, sound devices, figurative language, and parts of a story,
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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Onomatopoeia Lesson Plans for 10th Graders

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site offers links to lesson plans and ideas for teaching Onomatopoeia to high school students.
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Broward Education Foundation

Broward Education Foundation: The Arts and Crafts of Storytelling [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In the Arts and Crafts of Storytelling, American folk heroes come to life, help students expand their vocabulary and increase knowledge of figurative language. Students identify figurative language like similes, idioms and hyperboles....