In this lesson, students study poetic devices included in conversation poems and explore their eloquent messages.

In this lesson, students delve more deeply into figurative language and conflict resolution as they read the novel "Jacob Have I Loved"

In this lesson, students practice analyzing word meanings by learning root words and affixes. They work in a variety of ways with a list of about 20 common but challenging words to learn the definition and spelling of each. Then students get in small groups to design and play the Make-a-Word card game, during which they must form complete words with three cards: a prefix, a root word, and a suffix.

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.

In this lesson, students will dig deeper into the meanings of phrases in the stanzas of "If," a poem by Rudyard Kipling. Students will focus on recording notices and wonders about structure, puncutation, and word choice.

Students will explore images from the Klondike and read White Fang closely to learn how to define and differentiate these terms, ultimately presenting their findings as nature and culture detectives.

In this lesson, students will participate in a whole class discussion of their homework from "Jacob Ben Salomon, the Moneylender's Son" and" Petronella, the Merchant's Daughter."

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;

In this lesson, students complete a literary analysis on a Shakespearean Sonnet, understand the language that empowers the piece, and gain inspiration from Shakespeare's words to write their own sonnet.

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 background information, a passage, information, vocabulary words, and vocabulary in context. Students will write answers to questions, quotations to support a main idea, and a response to a prompt. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read "The Road Not Taken," and writes to analyze it for its figurative meaning. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read a passage from Robert Louis Stevenson's work and write to answer questions in order to interpret the meaning of phrases. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

In this story, the main character, Margaret is affected by the loss of her father and then the loss of her best friend who moves away. As she adapts to that change she discovers new talents and new friends. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments;

The following series of activities for the classroom allow students to explore and interact with poetry by writing letters to poets.

This poem, written in a voice of a child, addresses the fears a child faces when starting at a new school and/or being placed in a new classroom. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments; writing samples included.

In this activity, students read a fable by Aesop who was a storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE.

This teacher's guide for Lion Island: Cuba's Warrior of Words by Margarita Engle contains information about the book, discussion questions and prompts, activity suggestions including a readers theater, and ways to connect the themes in the book to other subjects.