In this lesson, students identify similes in poetry and gain experience in using similes as a poetic device in their own work.
I bribed my family with brownies to participate in an educational game night! In this video, we play a farm-themed word association game called Expression Connections taken from the Food, Land, and People curriculum. Try it out with your own family or classroom, and discover how many connections exist between you and the food that you eat!
Correlations to NC Essential Standards: Depends on how the lesson is adapted, but there is a lot of flexibility in this activity to be adapted to many standards in Science, Language Arts, and Social Studies.
This is a digital anchor chart.
Students will delve into Emily Dickinson's, "The Moon," to find different types of figurative language. Developing writers will love sharpening their reading comprehension skills with this poetry analysis activity.
This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 5th Grade ELA.
This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 5th Grade English Language Arts.
This resource accompanies our Rethink 5th Grade ELA course. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning.
Synonyms and Antonyms is a fun educational game for kids to practice matching synonyms and antonyms. Kids can choose from two different levels of difficulty before they play.
In this multi-session lesson, word webs are used to expose students to synonyms for common words, to help students choose synonyms that are appropriate for a given context, and to encourage students to use more descriptive words in their speech and writing. Student pairs then use words from the web in a skit they present to the class.
In this lesson, students explore words and how their meanings may change based on the way they are used. They will also be introduced to similes and metaphors and write and illustrate their own example of figurative language.