In this lesson, learners will choose a color and write a poem. Students will use personification and speak from the point of view of the color. Then learners will use watercolor paints to exemplify their poem about a color.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will use the book The Runaway Tortilla by Eric A. Kimmel to learn to identify and understand the use of personification in a fiction text. Lesson includes direct teaching, guided practice, and...

An explanation of personification and how it is used in poetry followed by a personification maker. Students push the buttons to create a personification and then write a poem that uses and expands on it.

In this lesson, Hailstones and Halibut Bones, a book written by Mary O'Neill and Red Sings, and From Treetops: a Year in Colors, a book by Joyce Sidman, are used as mentor texts. Students will brainstorm to collect different adjectives,...

A WebQuest where students explore microbial diversity by looking at the extreme habitat of the Atlantic White Cedar Swamp. Students will learn about protists through personification theme of Aesop's Fables. At the end of the lesson,...

Jimi Hendrix's 'The Wind Cries Mary' is an ideal song, not just to illustrate personification, but also to demonstrate how poetic devices enhance the meaning of the poem. As soon as the students recognize that the speaker is mourning the...

In this lesson, students will listen to Run D.M.C.'s classic, "My Adidas", then they will think about everywhere their shoes have taken them and the story they have to tell. Using literary devices such as personification, point of view,...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to identify and explain the meaning of figurative language including personification and idiom. Lessons are based on the books Once in a Blue...

This lesson plan features the Latin roots PLIC = fold, bend; FAC-FIC = make, do; COGN-NOT = know. Choose 1 of the 8 different word puzzle activities from the list below. Each word puzzle has directions, a clue and a vocabulary word list....

Dick Gackenbach's classic picture book, Harry and The Terrible Whatzit, is a wonderful story about a child and his fear of the Whatzit that he is sure lives in his cellar. The story shows how through determination and the desire to save...

In this instructional activity, students will personify an object within a poem. They will focus on voice and word choice in order to fully convey their message.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the book Once in a Blue Moon by Nicola Morgan to learn to identify and interpret the meaning of figurative language in a fiction text. Lesson includes direct teaching,...

The students will be able to identify different types of figurative language in a story and explain how the author uses figurative language to shape the meaning and style of the story.