Often, without even realizing it, readers are connecting the words they read to their everyday lives. The human brain is moving so fast that even while reading, behind the scenes, readers are making connections to their real lives and to...

This lesson explains how to identify connected words when determining the meaning of unknown vocabulary. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A activity 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...