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Comparing Characters Across Two Short Stories

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders listen to a read aloud of two short stories focusing on literary devices. The write about the settings and realism of the stories, and decide each main character handles the conflict he faces with nature.
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Curated OER

Keeping the Past Alive

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners read about the oral histories of West Africa and complete related activities. In this oral histories lesson, students read about the importance of oral customs in African cultures. Learners interview a family member about oral...
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Curated OER

Alliteration

For Teachers K - 6th
Students write and illustrate a sentence which names a letter of the alphabet. The sentence should have subject, verb, describing words, and incorporate alliterative techniques.
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Curated OER

Technology-commected Folklife Lesson Plan: Fables

For Teachers K - 6th
Students discuss ways the stories were alike and different. The teacher demonstrate how to draw a Venn diagram using Microsoft Word. They label the two circles and enter the likenesses and differences on the diagram.
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Legends of the Fifth

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders discover the difference between myths, legends, and folk tales. They summarize legends. They work together to dramatize legends and then create their own legend using the writing process. Handouts and worksheets are included.
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Curated OER

VH1 Driven: Kanye West, Lesson 2

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars compose an original rap. They discuss the career and music of Kanye West, discuss their pre-writing worksheet, and write an original rap using a Final Draft Worksheet.
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Human Rights/Civil Rights

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners connect their examination of the novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry to a historical and contemporary study of the issue of human rights and civil rights by creating a HyperStudio stack.
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Curated OER

Using Scholastic News to Introduce the Net

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders log on to the net, type in the address for Scholastic and browse the subjects for the week. They select one area of interest and generate five interesting facts about the article.
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Curated OER

Exploring Alaska Foilage In Russian

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders investigate the concepts of how plants are part of daily culture in Russia. The skills of naming different plants is practiced. Students take a survey of the nature that is found in the area in which they live. This is...
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Curated OER

Proverbs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the origins of proverbs and examine several examples. Then they create their own collection of existing proverbs. Later they write their own original ones and share with the class.
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Read Write Think: Teaching Poetry Through Riddles

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Excellent teaching resource that attempts to teach poetic concepts to middle schoolers by using riddles. Discusses riddles' use of metaphor, simile, and imagery, and relates these concepts to the students' understanding of poetry....
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Introducing Metaphors Through Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson is designed to help students begin to engage with metaphors on a deeper and more abstract level. The lesson will begin with a poem containing metaphors accessible at all levels, and with each poem, the lesson will progress in...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: The Ab Cs of Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Contains plans for a poetry lesson that asks learners to write poems after brainstorming metaphors and other ideas as a group. Ideas are groups by different themes, like letters of the alphabet. In addition to objectives and standards,...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Voice Building Poetry Lesson: Four Metaphor Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Inspired by Mem Fox's Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge which includes four metaphors for memory, this writing prompt asks learners to think of an original abstract noun. Students will brainstorm details as they come up with ideas for...
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Read Works

Read Works: 4th Grade Lesson: Similes and Metaphors

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students 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...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Mathematical Recipe Metaphors

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, Barry Lane's books entitled Reviser's Toolbox and 51 Wacky We-Search Reports are used as mentor texts. Used as a refeference, the concept of recipe poems can be instructed to the students and the genre of "how to" books,...
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Read Works

Read Works: 3rd Grade Lesson: Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students 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...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Colorful Sensory Poems

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
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...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: How to Make Poetry

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
Learners learn how to write poetry through ten Writing Workshop mini-lessons. Students complete the graphic organizers provided while learning to notice details, write similes and metaphors, and create patterns in their writing.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Unique Metaphor Collections

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, the first chapter of the novel Girl with a Pearl Earring is used as a mentor text. Students will identify metaphors and then create their own unique metaphorical descriptions that they will begin to collect in their...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Writing About Writing: An Extended Metaphor Assignment

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Contains plans for five lessons that teach extended metaphors using Richard Wilbur's poem "The Writer." In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Poetry and Music Fun With Chris Daughtry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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,...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Right Brained Lesson: Serendipitous Love Metaphors

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Based on its title, student writers predict what Benatar's song means when it says that "Love Is a Battlefield." After discussing Benatar's extended metaphor as a class, learners will create an original extended metaphor about love in...
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Read Works

Read Works: Figurative Language 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this three-lesson unit, students use the book If You Hopped Like a Frog by David Schwartz and some additional short texts to learn to identify and understand the use of simile and metaphor in fiction...

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