In this lesson, learners will use figurative language, digital tools, and illustrations to write a story. The teacher will model how to use an app that has onomatopoeia to create a story with a good beginning, middle, and end. A video...

This lesson focuses on the use of imagery and figurative language in writing to aid understanding and create images in the mind.

For this lesson, 5th graders learn how to analyze figurative language in the poem, "Casey At The Bat."

This twelve-part learning module provides assorted references for figurative language terms. This blendspace provides reproducible charts, flash cards, a game, video tutorial lessons, and rap songs. L.9-10.5 Fig Lang/nuances

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan, based on In a Pickle and Other Funny Idioms by Marvin Terba, in which young scholars learn how understand idioms and use them to explain the plot and to make predictions. With free login,...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan in which learners use the book Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes edited by David Roessel and Arnold Rampersad to learn to identify and understand the use of simile and metaphor in...

This is a lesson plan for teaching the seven literary terms used in poetry: simile, metaphor, alliteration, imagery, hyperbole, personification, and onomatopoeia.

Lesson plan takes students through an exploration of the figurative language in "Hamlet."

This site offers a definition of onomatopoeia and two lesson plans with two activities each for teaching onomatopoeia to 9th graders.

This lesson not only examines the message of Dr. King, but also the words themselves. This is a lesson in identifying the literary devices that he used in his "I Have a Dream" Speech. It will introduce the following literary devices:...

This language arts lesson grabs students' attention by incorporating a popular musician. The lyrics to "Over You" include vivid language that makes identifying figures of speech intriguing. The students will identify similes, metaphors,...

This lesson plan for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" explores the author's use of figurative language and includes follow-up activities and additional resources.

In this lesson, students will recognize and examine the lives of Alabamians who have impacted the lives of others and the history of the state with their notable contributions during the first half and last half of the twentieth century....