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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFigurative Language Awards Ceremony
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students use their background knowledge of figurative language. They listen to texts read a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFigurative Language: Teaching Idioms
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Vocabulary & Spelling, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students explore figurative language with a focus on the literal versus the metaphorical tr...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLangston Hughes
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on the life and poetry of Langston Hughes. A classroom activity is featured in which studen...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWorld Hello Day
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: World History, Humanities, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, History-Social ScienceThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on "World Hello Day," started in 1973 to promote peace between Egypt and Israel. A classroo...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDancing through Poetry
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: Dance, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Visual ArtsIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students look at poetry as a way to express the art of dance metaphorically. Students read two differen...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAs Slippery as an Eel: An Ocean Unit Exploring Simile and Metaphor
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Science, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students explore simile and metaphor in fiction and nonfiction ocean books. Using the figur...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDancing Minds and Shouting Smiles: Teaching Personification Through Poetry
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, GrammarIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students learn about personification by reading and discussing poems by Emily Dickinson, William ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Race with Grace: Sports Poetry in Motion
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Vocabulary & Spelling, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students explore the grace and beauty of motion in a variety of sports. Examining examples from t...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Poetry Forge
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis site offers a variety of interactive poetry tools designed to allow student writers to actively and mindfully work through ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkReading and Writing Workshop: <em>Freak the Mighty</em>
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Vocabulary & Spelling, Literary Analysis, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, GrammarStudents use a variety of reading and writing strategies as they read Rodman Philbrick’s Freak the Mighty.Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLearning to Learn with <em>Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster</em>
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Vocabulary & Spelling, English-Language Arts, Theatre, Science and 4 additional..Students combine vocabulary exploration with word play by planning their own vocabulary parade, modeled on the activities in the...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLangston Hughes was born in 1902.
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.Students examine the poem "Dreams" and identify metaphors in each sentence. Groups of students then compose poems with metaphors...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkElements of Poetry
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, GrammarThe Bedford/St. Martin s Web site presents this list of elements of poetry with links to definitions, interactives, and examples...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriters Strategies
Grades: TK/K to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Professional DevelopmentThis page, from the Journey North Web site, features information about different strategies writers use to communicate ideas eff...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkColor Poems?Using the Five Senses to Guide Prewriting
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, Literary Analysis, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionStudents use their five senses as a prewriting tool to guide their poetry writing as they compose free-form poems using imagery ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSeamus Heaney was born on this day in 1939.
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.Students focus on the figurative language in Heaney's poem, "Digging," and discuss the speaker's attitude, and how metaphor, sim...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentWord Art with King's Words
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 4Subjects: Literary Analysis, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, United States History, History-Social ScienceExamine one or more of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s letters or speeches and turn powerful words and phrases into word art using ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0