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Grade 5, Language Arts Language Expression: Identify figurative language - onomatopoeia, similes, personification, idioms, and metaphors (COS 33/ SAT10)

Lesson Plans: Book Report Alternative: Comic Strips and Cartoon Squares Students tire of responding to novels in the same ways. By creating comic strips or cartoon squares featuring characters in books, they're encouraged to think analytically about the characters, events, and themes they've explored. Lift Every Voice and Sing By analyzing the poem's figurative language, students will come to understand how the poem conveys a sense of hope and unity despite hardship. Mighty Metaphors This activity addresses one part of this standard on which the students learn that metaphors are figures of speech that compare two things without using the words "like" and "as." They then complete a worksheet on which they write metaphors. Happiness is a Warm Puppy Students will use critical thinking skills to write a book from a dog's point of view.

Resources: Gigantic Learning with Giants: Go colossally creative with these fun, brain-stretching fairytale activities. Figurative Language Resources Figurative Language Review: This worksheet has students identify where figurative language is used and what it means. You could take it a step further and have them identify what type of figurative language is being used. Suggestions for English Language Learners: (E/B=Entering/Beginning, D=Developing, E=Expanding) (E/B, D, E) Students highlight "like" or "as" to identify similes in a passage. (E/B, D, E) Working from a list, students highlight words in a passage which make a statement a hyperbole. Then they may practice transforming a sentence into a hyperbole. (E/B, D, E) Working from a list, students highlight words that indicate personification in a passage. Then they may rewrite the passage without the personification for comparison. (D) Students use web sites that discuss idioms, such as ESL Cafe's Idioms or Crazy English. Students practice using idioms and figurative language in class. (D, E) After the concept of alliteration is explained, students identify examples of alliteration in a passage, then write alliterative sentences on sentence strips for display.
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