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Stone Fox Chapter 10

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
In this comprehension worksheet, pupils read chapter 10 of Stone Fox and complete multiple choice questions. Students complete 5 questions.  
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Poetry Voices

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students investigate the performance aspect of poetry by reading, writing and discussing poetry pieces.
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Poetry Sings

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students examine examples of literary terms in poetry. Then they choose two songs, write out the lyrics, and decipher what they think the artist is trying to say. Each student presents their song to the class and they cite examples of...
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Alliterations Allowed

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders recognize and create alliterative language in both literary and commercial use. For this language arts lesson, 4th graders analyze pieces of poetry and focus on the use of imagery, personification, and figures of speech.
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Symbol Beneath the Surface in "The Life You Save May Be Your Own"

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students identify the value of symbols in shorts stories and analyze Flannery O'Connor's use of symbolism. In this symbolism instructional activity, students complete a worksheet about symbols for cars. Students answer...
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Ode to the Earth: Magnetic Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore Earth Day by creating an arts and crafts project. In this nature appreciation activity, students utilize nature related vocabulary terms on magnets and put them in different orders to create interesting poetry. Students...
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Spelling List 4: Sight Words, "al/il," and Academic Vocabulary

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this spelling worksheet, students copy a set of 21 words 2 times each. Words are sight, academic or have the al/il sound. A reference website is given.
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Lord of the Flies: Figurative Language

For Students 9th - 10th
For this Lord of the Flies worksheet, students write whether given examples are simile, metaphor, personification, or hyperbole, and tell how they know.  
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Identify Poetic Devices

For Students 6th - 8th
In this poetic devices worksheet, students identify devices being used as alliteration, rhyme, onomatopoeia, rhyme, idiom, simile, metaphor, hyperbole or personification and explain their choice.
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Identifying Figurative Language

For Students 5th - 10th
In this figurative language activity, students identify figurative language in the sentences and explain their answers. Students complete 10 problems.
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Crafting Poetry: A Sensory Journey

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders experiment with poetry devices to write poems. In this poetry lesson, 10th graders participate in learning stations. Students create a word pool and select a word from the list to create a line of poetry. Students complete...
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students use Maya Angelou's novel, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings to identify themes about adversity in the text. In this adversity, students read chapter 36 of the novel and discuss the examples of adversity in the book. Students...
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Out of the Dust: Figurative Language

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners find examples of figurative language in "First Rain" in Out of the Dust.  In this Out of the Dust instructional activity, students takes notes on various type of figurative language and identify examples of each type in the...
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Personification

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students engage in a lesson about personification. They read passages from Charlotte's Web  which are connected to the concept of looking for key words to name the character. Students review the definition of personification, and...
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Stain My Days Blue

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners read several poems related to the life and culture of the Appalachia region. They are introduced to the poetic forms of simile, alliteration and onomatopoeia and respond to the poems through journal entries and poetry of their own.
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Emotion Similes

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students define what a simile is before writing a poem that is based primarily on similes. They brainstorm and write the poem using the give format. They write drafts, revise and present a final poem.
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Figurative Language 2

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Pupils read nursery rhymes and advertisements to identify examples of figurative language. As a class, students discuss the use of figurative language and its effectiveness in advertising, children's books, rhymes, poetry, etc. Pupils...
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Painting Pictures with Poetry

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students develop their own smilies and metaphors. They examine writing of the Poet Laureate. They identify philanthropy in quotations of others.
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Fabulous Alliteration

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore an alliterative tale called Four Fanished Foxes and Fosdyke. They listen to the story, then brainstorm their own lists of alliterative words and make their own alliterative tales. Some nice worksheets are attached...
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Ode to a Nightingale

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars read poems about Tuberculosis by John Keats. Using the poems, they identify similies, metaphors, personification and imagery. In groups, they make connections about the author's outlook on life and how his disease...
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Awesome Alliterations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars review examples of alliteration in Shel Silverstein's poems. They are assigned a letter of the alphabet and then write an original alliterative poem using that letter.
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Study Guide: The Most Dangerous Game

For Students 7th - 9th
In this study guide for "The Most Dangerous Game" students define vocabulary and literary terms found in the reading. Students also answer reading comprehension questions.
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Poetry Unit

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students, after examining three forms of poetry, review and document a variety of literary terms. Vocabulary words are enveloped into the literary terms as well and are cited from each selection by each student.
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Figurative Language Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders analyze and interpret figurative language. They listen to some examples of poetry which use figurative language. Then, they divide into groups and attempt to find more examples. Finally, 8th graders write what the poet is...

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