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Curated OER

Getting to Know My Apple

For Teachers 1st
First graders compare an apple to unlike things in a simile poem. ie: The apple tastes sour like a lemon. When poems are complete, have students share their simile poems with the class and finish eating their apples.
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Curated OER

Metaphors, Personifications, Similes, and Hyperboles

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discuss prior knowledge of the terms simile, hyperbole, metaphor, and personification. They then listen to the definitions of each and write a hyperbole, personification, simile, and metaphor to describe a Mr. Potato Head...
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Curated OER

Chapter 19 B Word Search Puzzle

For Students 4th - 5th
In this language arts instructional activity, students examine 12 words in a word bank which pertain to geometric figures. Students locate the words in a word search puzzle. The meaning of the title is unclear.
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Curated OER

Language Arts: Two Specific Documents

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are able to read and analyze the essential parts of two specific types of documents, the informed consent document and the position paper, used by scientists to communicate information about their research to two different kinds...
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Curated OER

Language Arts: Living in "The Matrix"

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils are able to identify, in a discussion mode, the ways in which the media uses persuasion to achieve their desired aims. They analyze, also in a discussion mode, the media's influence on our society by comparing media advertising...
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Curated OER

Language Arts: Revision and Peer Editing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are able to evaluate their peers' essays to determine clarity, completeness, and persuasiveness. They are able to revise their own essays for greater clarity and fluency, adding explanation where needed and cutting extraneous...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Understanding Idioms

For Students 5th - 6th
In this language arts worksheet, students discover that idioms are spoken or written sentences where the meaning is not obvious from the individual words used. Students read 10 idioms and match them with their meanings from a word bank.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Spelling by Picture - School Subjects

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this school subjects spelling instructional activity, students spell each of the 8 school subject words correctly in the blanks provided. There is a corresponding picture to help students figure out what the word is, and some of the...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Idioms Beginning with V

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this online interactive language activity, learners choose the multiple choice answer that best describes each idiom that begins with a V.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Idioms 3

For Students 5th - 10th
In this English language skills worksheet, students answer 6 multiple choice questions regarding the meaning of idioms.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Music to My Ears - Figures of Speech and Stylistic Devices

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers know the meaning of a given list of figures of speech and stylistic devices. They identify examples of these terms in the music and songs with which they are familiar. They examine how to apply the knowledge of these terms...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Poems in Sections: The Mosaic Format

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students explore poetry. They examine metaphors. Students discuss and write examples of "figurative" and "literal" language. They read mosaic poetry. Students write a poem in mosaic format.
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Curated OER

Congruent Figures

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read "Congruent Figures," by Takahashi Takako. They conduct small group discussion using the role sheets and their reading logs.
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Curated OER

Historical Figures

For Teachers 11th
Student research a "Historical Individual" using the Internet. They print a minimum of five articles and organize them. They create a visual biography of their historical figure.
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EngageNY

Building Background Knowledge: Learning About the Historical and Geographical Setting of Esperanza Rising (Chapter 1: “Aguascalientes, Mexico, 1924”)

For Teachers 5th Standards
Set up your class to read Esperanza Rising, by Pam Muñoz Ryan, through a class read-aloud and exploration of the setting. The detailed instructional activity outlines each step. First, class members read over the first few pages and...
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Curated OER

Lesson 3: Puns

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Encourage more pun-derstanding of word play in your literary scholars as they explore Brian P. Cleary's book Rhyme and Punishment: Adventures in Wordplay. Although this isn't suggested, consider beginning this study by simply showing...
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Worksheet
K12 Reader

Alliteration and Tongue Twisters

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Did she sell seashells by the seashore, or did Bill buy berries by the ballpark? Practice literary skills with an activity based on famous tongue twisters. Kids replace the nouns, verb, and adjectives in two phrases to create a new...
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Museum of Disability

Buddy, The First Seeing Eye Dog

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd Standards
Learn about how the seeing eye dog program began with a reading instructional activity about Eva Moore's chapter book, Buddy, The First Seeing Eye Dog. With vocabulary words, discussion questions, and extension resources, the...
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Worksheet
ESL Library

Muhammad Ali

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
"Float like a butterfly, and sting like a bee" with a resource about the greatest boxer of our generation. A short biographical reading passage introduces young readers to Muhammad Ali, and includes information about his early life as...
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Worksheet
K12 Reader

Alliteration Adventures

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Assign a worksheet to reinforce the literary device of alliteration. Scholars choose a letter, brainstorm a variety of nouns, verbs, and adjectives that begin with that letter, then write three sentences using the words they listed. 
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K20 LEARN

Sweet and Savory Writing: Descriptive Writing

For Teachers 7th - 8th Standards
The engagement is in the details. Young scholars learn the benefit of weaving descriptive and sensory details into the fabric of their writing through the activities in this lesson plan. As their hands explore items concealed in bags, a...
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Activity
Digital Public Library of America

The Poetry of Maya Angelou

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Maya Angelou's work reflects her passion for life, civil rights, and justice for all. A collection of 12 primary sources provide scholars with insight into this amazing woman. The set includes photographs, articles, recordings of...
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Unit Plan
University of British Columbia

Pondering Poetry and Playing with Words

For Teachers 9th
First-year High school scholars explore the world of poetry with an 11-lesson unit that examines a range of poetry forms and tries their hand at crafting their own poems. Young poets then collect their work in a portfolio that they...
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Interactive
Arcademics

Furious Frogs

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
A multiplayer learning game challenges scholars to match words making antonym pairs. 

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