Access Point #: LAFS.6.W.1.AP.3g (Archived Access Point)


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Use figurative language appropriately, including similes and metaphors.

Clarifications:

Essential Understandings

  • Define figurative language.
  • Identify the meaning of a simile from a sentence. Identify the meaning of a metaphor from a sentence.
  • Sort a group of sentences into three groups – similes, metaphors and literal (not a simile or a metaphor).
  • Match a literal sentence to a figurative phrase (e.g., Cat got your tongue? Do you have nothing to say?).

Number: LAFS.6.W.1.AP.3g Category: Access Points
Date Adopted or Revised: 06/14 Cluster: Text Types and Purposes

Related Standards

Name Description
LAFS.6.W.1.3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
  1. Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically.
  2. Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
  3. Use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another.
  4. Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events.
  5. Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.



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