Why is it important to use precise language? Participants explore this question in the fourth activity in a series of 15 on effective instruction. Perfect for all content areas, the activity promotes appropriate language choice through...

This lesson plan examines the use of personification in the "great poets." Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.

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...

[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...

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.

Two page, PDF format handout about Richard Wilber's poem "The Death of a Toad" used as an example of personification. Also includes a student-written explanation of the poem and a few discussion questions.

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

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....

[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...

[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,...

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,...

This lesson focuses on the short story "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It features links to the article "The Salem Witchcraft Hysteria of 1692 and 'Young Goodman Brown'" and the PDF text for the short story. It also defines...

In this lesson, students learn how to make complex inferences and use textual evidence such as imagery and figurative language to support understanding.

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,...

This lesson from a unit on American Transcendentalism focuses on key literary terms that fit the writings of the period and an interactive crossword puzzle using the terms and their definitions.

This lesson focuses on Carl Sanburg and his poem "Chicago." It includes biographical information, as well as links to the poem, a video of pictures of Chicago in the early 20th century, and a "Discovery Education" video on Carl Sandburg....

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

Contains plans for five to seven lessons that teach about figurative language like similes, metaphors, and personification by asking learners to write award acceptance speeches that incorporate them. In addition to objectives and...

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:...

In this lesson students examine primary source documents including photographs, film, maps, and essays to learn about Chicago at the turn of the 20th century and Carl Sandburg's famous poem. After examining the poem's use of...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This site contains a collection of passage that include figurative language lessons. Each lesson includes questions to assess student understanding.

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

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,...

In this lesson, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith is used as the mentor text. Students will explore numbers and the properties of these numbers. Students will then write a math story, using the explored numbers, and incorporate...