University of Virginia Library
Prism: "The Tone of American Pie" Visualization
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted the lyrics to Don McLean's "American Pie." Details with a nostalgic tone are blue while details with a sad tone are red and an indignant or outraged tone...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Discovering Ourselves in Literature and Life
This lesson plan, provided by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), encourages students to evaluate literature in a variety of multimedia formats and answer the question, "Who Am I?," Students are then asked to...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart accompanies the story Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind from the Scholastic Reading Series, Literacy Place for 4th grade. It introduces and discusses the genre of tall tales, vocabulary,...
TES Global
Blendspace: 3rd Grade Poetry Investigation
A learning module with thirty-one links to texts, videos, images, websites, and slides on different types and forms of poetry as well as poetic imagery, rhyme, figurative language use, and more.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Spelling City: Figurative Language
This website focuses on figurative language: hyperbole, simile, metaphor, personification, and idioms. It provides lists of examples for each based on three educational levels: elementary, middle school, and high school.
Other
Bob's Byway: Glossary of Poetic Terms
Calling itself "unique," Bob's is easy to use, with cross-links throughout, phonetic pronunciation guides when necessary, and many examples and quotations. Click on the letter and scroll for the word.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Companion to Gary Paulsen's Hatchet
[Free Registration/Login Required] The flipchart is meant to be used before during and after reading Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. It includes introduction material as well as discussion topics during reading and assessment questions after...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Figurative Language
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource explores figurative language including similes, metaphors, and personification. There are many activities used to support the exploration of each type of figurative language.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Figurative Language and Persuasive Writing
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews figurative language and persuasive writing. It also includes an Activote session.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Figurative Language and Sound Devices
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is intended for students in grades 4 and 5 who have been introduced to the terms simile, metaphor, hyperbole, alliteration, and onomatopoeia. The activities in the flipchart give...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Idioms
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson is an introduction to idioms. It is intended to meet Nevada 8th grade standards in relation to figurative language and idioms.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Idioms(have You Ever Seen a Pig Fly!)
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students are introduced to idioms as a form of figurative language in this flipchart.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: English Worksheets and Tests
Downloadable worksheets and tests focusing on reading, figurative language, genre, language arts, point of view, and text structure for middle grades.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Hyperbole
This lesson introduces hyperbole as a rhetorical device. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Pun
This lesson introduces puns in writing. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Symbolism
This lesson introduces symbols in fiction writing. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Using Contextual Story Clues
This lesson explains how to use contextual story clues to determine the meaning of unknown vocabulary. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content. RL.11-12.4 Words/Context/Story, L.11-12.4a Words/Context
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Rhetorical Devices and Historically Significant Speeches
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart gives students the opportunity to analyze Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech and identify the rhetorical devices that make them...
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Kids on the Net: Dragonville: Do You Know Your Metaphors?
In this game, students are to drag the words on the right to the complete the metaphor on the left. The time begins as soon as the game is opened.
Other
Kids on the Net: Dragonville: Do You Know Your Similes?
The object of this game is to drag the words on the right to form similes with the phrases on the left before the time runs out. The time begins as soon as the page is opened.
Other
Common Core Standards Bellringers: Grade 8: English Language Arts [Pdf]
See pages 15, 31, and 47 of this 227-page document for activities where students must order sets of words from most negative to most positive connotation.
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Examining Tone in Literature [Pdf]
Click through this PDF slide presentation to learn a definition of tone and to gain a better understanding of how it is used in literature. Slides include activities to help students see the effect of using different tones and examples...
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Poetry Lesson Plans Onomatopoeia
This site offers a definition of onomatopoeia and two lesson plans with two activities each for teaching onomatopoeia to 9th graders.
Quizlet
Quizlet: 5th Grade: Reading Terms: Flashcards
This set of interactive flashcards focuses on 34 terms relating to reading and their definitions.