Owl Moon Literature Study and Mentor Text. Teach upper elementary students figurative language using this Caldecott Book by Jane Yolen.
ALuv {in 3rd grade} is one of those learners who needs explicit teaching in order to truly get it, especially with vocabulary or figurative language. And that’s okay by me. I love the extra challenge of helping the light bulb come on. It keeps me on my toes {and knees}. Just recently, we did a text ... Read More about Figurative Language Scavenger Hunt Through Text
Delve with students into civil rights through Linda Williams Jackson's narrative, Midnight Without a Moon, with impactful free lesson plans on StoryboardThat.
Let your students decide how they want to demonstrate their understanding of the novel! This PDF choice board includes 8 final project choices for students. Each choice is based on the novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech. The variety in choices taps into the multiple intelligences, with choices in...
Teaching the moon phases can be fun! Check out these moon phases activities and books for kids to recognize the different Moon phases.
This activity provides 24 sentences for students to practice distinguishing between when to use was and were. Each sentence is about a famous aviator or event in aviation history. This is called a quadruple play activity because the sentence cards can be used four different ways. This makes the acti...
Read Diosa del Amor//Datos//Diseño from the story ☁Los CoMPaS||Gods Au ☁ by CoffeSpace ("Hey Mamas") with 3,915 reads. loscompas, elmayo97, au.
This worksheet has been create to go along with 5th grade McGraw Hill Reading Wonder Series Reading Writing Workshop: "A Modern Cinderella" and Literature Anthology "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" for Unit 2 week 2. I created this worksheet to help prepare students with FSA styled and standard b...
Use picture books to teach personification. Focus on one literary device and your upper elementary students will easily master it!
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The list below contains the books I have used over the years for teaching figurative language. Some of them are designed to teach about figurative language and some of them are books with figurative language woven naturally into the poem or story. Just recently, we shared how we used one of these books to do a text ... Read More about Books with Figurative Language
Week 16 Reading Comprehension (C-16). Reading comprehension passage about the different phases of the moon. Cross-Curricular Focus: Earth Science.
This moon and stars unit study has Charlotte Mason ELA lessons + hands-on STEAM activities for family school for middle and high School students