Standard #: LAFS.4.L.3.5 (Archived Standard)

In this lesson students will practice creating a variety of introductions for narrative writing using fairy tales as the springboard.

In this lesson, students will use idioms to explain a plot and predict what will happen next in a story. The featured text for this lesson is the book In a Pickle and Other Funny Idioms by Marvin Terba. There are also two practice passages provided with the resource.

This lesson incorporates the use of the book Owl Moon by Jane Yolen to help scaffold student skills by enriching their writing with descriptive words, metaphors, similes, and imagery. Teachers can use the shades of meaning within the text to help students understand the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the story. The book is full of beautiful descriptive passages that stand as excellent exemplars of how a simple scene can be brought to life with the addition of figurative language. In the end of lesson assessment, students will create their own vivid story while writing from their own experience.

In this lesson, students will be able to identify similes and metaphors within a piece of literature. Students will be able to determine the meaning of the simile or metaphor and explain how it contributes to the text. The students will be able to then use their understanding of similes and metaphors to apply them to their own narrative writing.

In this lesson, students will listen to and read literature where figurative language (specifically idioms) are used to convey meaning and enhance the writing. Students will have opportunities to explore and discuss idioms, in addition to applying their understanding of idioms by incorporating idioms in their own writing. Students will work in groups, individually, and with direct instruction from the teacher to gain a better understanding of idioms and how they are used in literature.

In this resource, students will interpret the meanings of poems using similes and metaphors. The featured resource in the teacher modeling and guided practice sections utilize the text Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes edited by David Roessel and Arnold Rampersad. The poem (not a Langston Hughes poem) for the independent practice is provided with the lesson.

In this lesson students will be introduced to commonly used idioms and their meanings. Students will have the opportunity to listen to idioms used in short stories and recognize how they add meaning to the text. Students will be given time to work in small groups and discuss idioms found in stories they will read with one another. Students will also have the opportunity to work individually to create illustrations that depict both the literal meaning and the figurative meaning of the idiom of their choice.

In this activity, students will choose the correct homophone to complete sentences.

In this activity, students will identify the meanings of homographs by playing a matching game.

In this activity, students will identify and sort contractions, synonyms, antonyms, abbreviations, homophones, and homographs.

In this activity, students will match homophones with their meanings by playing a card game.

In this activity, students will read two meanings and write the matching homograph.

In this activity, students will match antonyms by playing a memory game.

In this activity, students will identify antonyms by playing a domino game.

In this activity, students will identify synonyms by playing a bingo-like game.

In this activity, students will identify words to complete analogies.

In this activity, students will produce category labels for related words to demonstrate understanding of their shared attributes/meanings.

In this activity, students will produce categories and corresponding words. As an adaptation to this activity, the students may sort teacher-selected words into categories and produce a category heading based on shared attributes OR produce words that belong in teacher-selected categories (based on units of study).

In this activity, students will state words that correspond to specific categories by playing a board game. NOTE: A blank game board is provided to allow teachers to create categories relevant to classroom instruction. As an extension, students may choose the word that does not belong in a set of words and name the category for the remaining words.

In this activity, students will identify similarities and differences between the meanings of words using a Venn diagram.

In this activity, students will find Hink Pinks that correspond to meanings by playing a matching game.

In this activity, students will match homographs with their corresponding meanings.

In this activity, students will distinguish one word from another by completing an attribute analysis grid. As an adaptation to this activity, teachers may create attribute analysis grids that reflect units of study.

In this activity, students will identify examples of non-literal words and phrases in text and record possible meanings.

In this activity, students will produce synonyms and antonyms to match targeted words.

In this activity, students will produce more precise alternatives for overused words in context.

In this activity, students will show the relationship among words by placing them on a continuum.

In this activity, students will produce synonyms as more precise alternatives for overused words.

In this resource, students will be introduced to the concepts of simile and metaphor. Throughout guided and independent practice, they will create their own similes and metaphors inspired by pictures of ocean animals. Students will use templates to create a class book on the ocean that features similes and metaphors, along with student created illustrations, to showcase those comparisons.