Rachel wakes up on her eleventh birthday feeling as if she’s still ten—and nine, and eight, and all the ages that came before and the day just gets worse from there. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments; writing samples included.

In this lesson, students will focus on Chapter 2 of Bud, Not Buddy, focusing on figurative language and word choice and how those elements help readers gain insight into Bud's character.

This lesson provides hands-on differentiated instruction by guiding students to search for the literal definitions of figurative language using the Internet. It also guides students in understanding figurative meanings through the use of context clues and making inferences.

This interactive lesson allows students the opportunity to fill in the blanks of a story with words created through a virtual flip of a chip. Students will use chips as tools for showing different affixes and roots that can be joined together to create words. The created words are inserted in a paragraph according to context clues. Students can work in pairs to create their own set of chips and corresponding paragraph. Students then exchange their packets to see whether the context clues are stong enough to enable classmates to fill in the blanks correctly.

This lesson capitalizes on a student's love of jokes to understand how word context and inference are used in everyday language to create humor.

This expository text selection outlines the efforts of the Chinese people to build the Great Wall to protect them from the Mongol invaders and describes how the wall led to the eventual fall of the empire. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this history through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.

In this video resource from PBS Learning Media, students will explore the types of humor that exist, such as Irony, Satire, Farce, and Parody. They will research and find examples of humor that appeal to them. Next, they will choose a passage written by Mark Twain and analyze it to determine what type of humor is used.

In this lesson, students study the use of symbolism in poetry and examine how symbolism can be used to explain their own lives and emotions.

Teachers and students can click through each stanza to learn about alliteration, assonance, and internal rhyme, as well as certain vocabulary words.

In this lesson, students will continue using the Figurative-Language in Bud, Not Buddy graphic-organizer to analyze figurative-language from the novel, now without any modeling or input from the teacher.

Concept Sorts can be used before reading to gather students’ prior knowledge about the upcoming content, or can be used after reading to assess students’ understanding of the concepts that were presented to them. Have students brainstorm a list of words from reading material or an upcoming unit, lesson, or text (sometimes the word list may need to be provided by the teacher). Students then discuss each word and place it in its correct category; categories can either be defined by the teacher or students.

In this lesson students will analyze idioms in order to comprehend their literal meanings through illustrations and paraphrasing.

In this lesson, students will work in groups and do a close read of one of the four monologues selected for a Jigsaw presentation.

John Henry competes against a steam drill in driving steel and proudly claims that he would sooner die than let a steam drill beat him. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments;

Students will read a poem and analyze it for alliteration, personification, and onomatopoeia. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read "If," write to explain, read and analyze the text for character traits and vocabulary, write examples of figurative language, write quotes to support a main idea, and write a narrative. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read examples of onomatopoeia and use them to complete sentences. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will use onomatopoeia to interpret visuals and then use the terms to write sentences. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.