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8th grade Common Core L.5.5b resources
Elements of Poetry Vocabulary Doodle Vocabulary for Poetry Vocab
This Doodle Vocabulary resource will introduce your students to 36 words associated with poetry. Students will not only learn the new vocabulary words, they’ll also showcase their learning with doodles! A poetry vocabulary quiz is included! This resource is a perfect addition to any poetry unit!You can use this resource in a variety of ways! You might:Create a single packet filled with the doodle vocabulary pages that students can reference all year long.Select specific pages that relate to part
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5th - 8th
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Figurative Language Assessment & Review Worksheets - PDF & Digital
Focus on figurative language comprehension with this 28-question figurative language assessment and study guide. With this printable or digital skill-based test, you'll easily and thoroughly cover six types of figurative language: metaphor, simile, hyperbole, personification, idiom, and symbolism.(Don't miss the rest of my Figurative Language Activities Bundle!)This resource includes the following digital versions:Google Slides (link in PDF)Easel Activity (link in My Purchases)Easel Assessment (
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Figurative Language Practice Bundle for Middle School - Print & Digital
Solar Eclipse 2024 Activities
Experience the 2024 total solar eclipse with your students with these three fun activities. They are offered in both a printable PDF version and Google Drive™ (Google Slides™) version. The Google version can be shared online with your students and they can fill in their responses online; perfect for a paperless school.The activities include a compiling information and responses for a 2044 time capsule, create a solar eclipse play list, and an extensive Solar Eclipse Idioms activity. Students wil
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5th - 10th
Idioms Matching by Color Coding Worksheets Print and Digital Easel Activity
Idioms Matching with Color Coding worksheets. Print and go. Printable activity - students match idioms to their meanings by coloring the matching boxes the same color with either colored pencils or crayons. A fun challenging activity that helps students develop their understanding of idioms as figurative language. Allow them to use an idioms glossary if they need help. You get seven different worksheets and answer keys. Includes teacher directions. Great for homework, homeschool, partners, and
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Idioms Bundle - PowerPoints, Worksheets, Easel Activities and Boom Cards
Song Lyric Analysis Stations - Teaching Poetry through Music
Grab your students' attention with your poetry unit by speaking their language... using music! These song lyric analysis stations will help you reinforce the poetry elements using any song. Give students a list of songs to choose from, or give them free rein (with a few requirements) and watch their excitement towards figurative language, sound devices, imagery, tone, and theme soar!✔ Check out the preview for a closer look!These song lyric analysis stations are low-prep and interactive, making
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6th - 8th
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Literary Devices Activity Escape Room Figurative Language Game
This breakout escape room is a fun way for students to practice their skills with literary devices. Given definitions and examples, students must identify the type of literary device that was used. Students then use decoder puzzles to turn their answers into a 4 digit code and advance level by level to break out of the game.Included Literary Devices: Allusion, Analogy, Characterization, Conflict, Dramatic Irony, Euphemism, Flashback, Foreshadowing, Hyperbole, Metaphor, Oxymoron, Paradox, Person
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5th - 8th
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Figurative Language Posters: Alliteration Simile Personification Idiom Hyperbole
Printable posters on nine basic figurative language crafts for teaching reading and writing in descriptive text. Each poster has a clear definition of the craft and a set of student-friendly examples. Includes:OnomatopoeiaAlliterationSimilePersonificationRepetitionMetaphorIdiomHyperboleDescriptive LanguageThere are four pdfs with this product. Each set of posters comes in a different format: wobbly frames with colored font, wobbly frames with black-and-white font, straight frames with colored f
Figurative Language Practice Bundle for Middle School - Print & Digital
Ready to teach your middle school students to understand figurative language instead of just recite definitions? This bundled set of middle school figurative language activities will take them from identifying examples to comprehension of figurative language in context to analyzing meaning! Don't skip these important reading skills - when your students can read and understand figurative language, they will be able to read almost anything!This bundle includes the following resources:Figurative La
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5th - 8th
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Figurative Language Activities | Similes, Metaphors, Idioms, Hyperbole | Digital
The use of FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE is like "SPECIAL EFFECTS FOR AUTHORS." It is a powerful tool for creating VIVID IMAGERY through ALLITERATION ⭐IDIOMS ⭐METAPHORS ⭐ONOMATOPOEIA ⭐PERSONIFICATION ⭐SIMILES ⭐HYPERBOLE, and more.This EDITABLE 116-PAGE unit teaches students FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE as both a READER and WRITER and is the perfect tool for teaching figurative language in 2024.YOU ARE GETTING: ❤️ Lesson plans❤️ Teaching materials ❤️ Visual writing prompts❤️ Digital & Print Graphic Organizers❤
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3rd - 8th
Youtube Video Companions Bundle Middle School Speech Therapy
This bundle includes four video companions will keep your middle school students engaged and learning! It includes inferencing, language, social communication, prediction, perspective-taking and more activities to accompany the following short films and videos:The Present,Like an Elephant in a China Shop,Snack Attack, andThe Cat who Adopts Baby Ducklings.Each product contains:1. A print AND digital version in EASEL, TPT's free digital platform,2. Data collection forms that are printable or ca
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5th - 8th
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No Prep Novel Study: The Unteachables by Gordon Korman (Print + DIGITAL)
This is a 115+ page, Common Core aligned, complete novel study for The Unteachables by Gordon Korman. This NO PREP book study teaching unit has everything that you will need to teach and assess the novel. The table of contents makes finding information quick and easy. ALL ANSWER KEYS ARE INCLUDED. The novel study is divided into 5 sections. Each section includes vocabulary, chapter questions, discussion questions, a vocabulary crossword puzzle, and a review quiz.Section 1: Chapters 1-5Section 2:
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5th - 8th
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Figurative Language Definitions Color by Number
Let's just drop every thing and color! This color by number activity is a great way to reinforce the difference between dependent and independent clauses with your students. This fun activity allows students to read a figurative language definition and determine the term for each.This figurative language definitions activity can be used as station work, extra credit, homework, classwork, or for tutoring sessions. Figurative language covered in this activity: metaphor, simile, personification, a
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: ELA GRAMMAR Color By Number BUNDLE Worksheets
Brown Girl Dreaming by J.Woodson: A LISTEN-AND-RESPOND Book Study
Want to make your read-aloud time truly productive? Begin with a magnificent, award-winning book like Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (see awards below). Then add this Listen-and-Respond student booklet to ensure that your students focus and understand and stretch themselves as they listen. You will end up with a concrete assessment of their learning and they will end up with both inspiration and greater understanding. This product is a ready-to-use PDF packet designed for teac
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5th - 9th
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Flying Pigs Figurative Language Pack
Work on building your students' comprehension and expressive use of figurative language skills with this fun pack of activities! This 32 page packet targets idioms, common proverbs, similes, & metaphors.
Included in the download are:
•Idioms cue card with definition & example
•15 idioms & definition matching cards
•32 idiom cards
•Proverbs cue card with definition & example
•20 proverbs & definition matching cards
•Student figurative language graphic organizer
•Simi
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3rd - 9th
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Idioms - an ELA game that combines figurative language and acting
Idioms is an ELA game that's like Charades. It contains 32 cards containing idioms, their meanings, and a keyword from each idiom. To begin the game, a player draws a card and looks at it. They are then allowed 40 seconds to act out the idiom. If their teammates can properly identify the idiom before the time runs out, they earn 3 points. If they can’t, the player who acted out the idiom reads its meaning as shown on the card. Their team is then allowed one guess at the answer which is now worth
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5th - 8th
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Figurative Language: Similes, Metaphors, & Personification for ESL/ELL students
This series of worksheets features an introduction to figurative language (Similes, Metaphors, and Personification) and is especially suited for elementary- or middle-school ESL / ELL students (though would be perfectly appropriate to use with non-ELL students as well). Students are first asked to analyze figurative language to discern the meaning. Then, they are challenged to write their own examples of similes, metaphors, and personification. All worksheets are scaffolded with visual aids, sen
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4th - 8th
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Wonder Book Study Guide - Chapter by Chapter Questions - Google Formats
This thought-provoking Wonder book guide has chapter by chapter reflection and analysis questions. Challenge your students to get the most out of reading this incredible, powerful, life-changing story. Please check the preview file and the product thumbnail files for examples questions from the 22 page book guide. This product includes: A student book guide, PDF print version (22 pages)A student book guide, PDF digital fillable form version (22 pages)A Google Forms & Slides Version of the M
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4th - 8th
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3-LS3-2
Also included in: Wonder Movie and Book Study Guide - Bundled Resource - 25% Discount
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: Poor Richard's Almanac & Research Project
Ben Franklin had many pithy sayings and quotes in his publication entitled Poor Richard's Almanac. Study the wit and wisdom of Ben Franklin by analyzing and explaining 18 different quotes from his writings. Students will learn more about Ben Franklin's life, and benefit their own lives as they apply these pithy life principles. Also included is a graphic organizer for students to research the personal life and historical events of Ben Franklin.What's Included:20 different segments with quotes
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: American History U.S. History Bundle: Beginnings through the 1850's
Valentine's Day Idiom Bingo - Common Core Aligned
Have fun working on idioms this Valentine's Day! This activity contains:♦ A list of 16 idioms (used on the bingo boards) and their associated definitions♦ 16 idiom definition “call out” strips♦ 10 different bingo “love” boards♦ Heart-shaped bingo chips (Color & Black line printing options)♥ Many of these idioms are covered using stories and flash cards in my Valentine’s Day Idioms activity. Save $ on this item by purchasing as a part of the Valentine's Day Idiom Bundle.********************
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4th - 8th
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Figurative Language Assessment
This assessment can be given at the end of a unit about figurative language. It covers similes, metaphors, alliteration, onomatopoeia, personification, idioms, and hyperbole. Types of questions include fill-in-the-blank, multiple choice, creative writing, and an open-ended analysis of a poem. An answer key is provided.
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3rd - 8th
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Figurative Language Worksheets - Printable & Digital
Quickly and easily check students' understanding of figurative language with these free, no-prep figurative language worksheets! Review the types of figurative language (simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, idiom, and symbolism), assess or pre-assess a figurative language unit, or just assign a page as homework. The activities include both matching and multiple-choice questions.This resource includes the following digital versions:Google Slides (link in PDF)Easel Activity (link in My Pu
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Figurative Language Practice Bundle for Middle School - Print & Digital
Snack Attack Youtube Video Companion Mixed Groups Speech Therapy
A video companion to the short, animated and wordless film, "snack attack" by Eduardo Verastegui-PDF version. It addresses both language and social skills for middle school students. Includes:link to and description of snack attack,pause and discuss inferences with time stamps, 2 tiers and answer keys, and 2 choices: all questions on one page or one question per page,prediction activity,reading comprehenion on first impressions-2 tiers and answer key,proverbs and sayings related to film, op
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5th - 9th
Also included in: Youtube Video Companions Bundle Middle School Speech Therapy
12 TYPES OF ANALOGIES WORKSHEETS
If you are looking for analogy worksheets with differentiation, look no further!
This product covers 12 analogies. I divided them into 4 sets. Depending on your class, you may want to combine two sets, or go at a slower pace and have your students work on one set at a time. These analogy worksheets have been designed for differentiation. The Parts A-C of each set is for all students, but Parts D-E of each provides progressively harder work.
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5th - 8th, Adult Education
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Valentine's Day Idioms - Common Core Aligned
Have fun working on idioms this Valentine's Day!
This packet includes:
♦ 12 idiom cards (color & black line included)
♦ 12 definition cards (color & black line included)
♦ 2 stories using the idioms
♦ 5 worksheets
♦ 5 answer keys
♦ 10 questions/topics for discussion
*This product was updated Feb 1, 2016.
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♥ Valentine's Day Interactive Books
♥ No Print Preschool V
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3rd - 12th
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