[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which young scholars use two provided poems to learn to identify and understand the use of similes and metaphors in poetry. Lesson includes direct teaching, guided practice, and independent...

This is a glossary entry for the term "Allegory" including multiple definitions for the term, links to other figures of speech, links to more information, and examples.

This lesson allows students to explore color - both in literal and figurative terms. Students will read books about color, discuss the emotion involved with color, and incorporate color metaphors to write poems using the graphic...

This lesson focuses on strategies for reading and analyzing a poetry. Reading poetry creates some interesting challenges because a poem uses lines and stanzas rather than paragraphs in order to create emotions and experiences. Figurative...

Teaching about idioms can be great fun. Why are idioms important? Idioms are important so that students can understand what everyone is saying! Idioms are a part of the figurative language. Using the Literal language (as in saying things...

This learning module provides remediation and extra practice with identifying and explaining personification in sentences. Reinforcement for personification is provided through the nine different worksheets.

After listening to More Parts by Tedd Arnold read aloud, intermediate school students distinguish between literal and figurative meaning by using a graphic organizer, playing an online game, and incorporating an idiom into their writing.