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Getting to Know You
Students complete a survey of interests to allow the teacher to become quickly acquainted with each student and introduce themselves using an alliterative adjective that best describes their personality.
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Writing to Persuade
Provide your class with a list of tricks to make their persuasive writing more effective. They can discuss the use of personal pronouns, alliteration, groups of three, repetition, and more in their writing. This is a simple, quick way to...
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Walk on the Wild Side
Have your class practice alliteration using this lesson. Learners listen to stories with alliterative elements and create their own sentences illustrating this technique. The lesson is incomplete, but could be enhanced to provide a...
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Reading for Tone and Inference
Using a reading passage, this instructional activity leads learners through an exploration of a text. This activity focuses on identifying what the reading passage is about, its tone, and key elements.
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Can You Name This American Symbol?
Like magic, a picture of the American flag appears. This presentation, in which a picture of the American flag is revealed in a step-by-step process, could be used as an anticipatory set in a lower elementary classroom.
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Making Similes
In this simile learning exercise, students read about similes, then use adjectives given in a word bank to create similes and fill in blanks in sentences with adjectives.
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Our Neighborhood
Learners inspect visual arts by analyzing their hometown. For this neighborhood lesson, students identify the different buildings, topography, landmarks and scenery near their home. Learners utilize art products such as paints and...
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Simile Practice
In this simile instructional activity, learners use a word bank of 18 adjectives to write similes. Examples and explanations are given at the top of the page.
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Four Translate The Logic Statement into Symbolic Form
In this logic symbolic form worksheet, students translate four logic statements into symbolic form. The solutions are not provided.
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Visual Allegory: The Tale of Man
In this visual allegory worksheet, students complete the provided graphic organizer that requires them to list details about examples of allegory in paintings.
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Animal Farm: Symbols Quiz
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 5 multiple choice questions based on symbols in Animal Farm. Students may submit their answers to be scored on this timed quiz.
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Buckle Down: Lesson 11-Literary Devices
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 20 multiple choice and short answer questions based on the literary elements of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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Metaphors
In this metaphor worksheet, students read statements that contain metaphors, then choose the statement that explains the meaning of each. A reference website if given for additional resources.
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Line and Expression - 3D
Students watch a video and slides to view Keith Haring's work of 3 dimensional forms based on 2 dimensional imagery. In this 3 dimensional forms lesson plan, students analyze symbols and discuss lines, sound, movement, and emotions.
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Metaphors
In this metaphor worksheet, students make a "word card" with the word metaphor for their vocabulary bank, then determine whether statement from The Dragonslayer are similes or metaphors,
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Repetition
In this repetition worksheet, 4th graders make a word card for repetition, find repetition and other poetic devices in poems, and answer short answer questions. Students complete 3 activities.
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Alliteration
In this alliteration worksheet, 4th graders write alliterations with their first names, find rhyming patterns in poems, and more. Students complete 4 activities.
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Similes
In this similes worksheet, 4th graders complete the similes and highlight similes in a poem. Students complete 4 activities on this worksheet.
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The Three Little Pigs
Young scholars read the story The Three Little Pigs and complete language activities about them. In this The Three Little Pigs lesson plan, students research houses, draw houses, and write alliteration poems.
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Playing with Patterns
Students use objects and symbols to create original linear patterns. In this patterns lesson plan, students also translate patterns from one modality to another.
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What's My Tone?
Students answer a question in the same tone of voice that you ask it in. In this tone lesson plan, students respond to the volume and expression of the teacher's voice.
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian: Quotes Quiz
In this online interactive symbols quiz worksheet, students respond to 5 multiple choice questions about quotations from The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Students may check their answers on this timed quiz.
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian: Symbols Quiz
In this online interactive symbols quiz instructional activity, students respond to 5 multiple choice questions about symbols used in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Students may check their answers on this timed quiz.
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Quotes Quiz
For this online interactive symbols quiz worksheet, students respond to 5 multiple choice questions about quotes from Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Students may check their answers on this timed quiz.