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Standard 3: Critical Reading and Writing Students will apply critical thinking skills to reading and writing. 

4.3.R.4

Students will find examples of literary devices:

  • metaphor

  • idiom

  • personification

  • hyperbole

  • simile

  • alliteration

  • onomatopoeia
Student Actions
Teacher Actions
  • Students understand what a metaphor is.

  • Students find examples of metaphors in a text. 

  • Students understand what an idiom is.

  • Students find examples of idioms in a text.

  • Students understand what personification is.

  • Students find examples of personification in a text.

  • Students understand what hyperbole is.

  • Students find examples of hyperbole in a text.

  • Students understand what a simile is.

  • Students find examples of similes in a text.

  • Students understand what alliteration is.

  • Students find examples of alliteration in a text.

  • Students understand what onomatopoeia is.

  • Students find examples of onomatopoeia in a text.

 

Metaphors

  • Teachers introduce metaphors and explain that metaphors are a symbolic comparison of two unlike objects or ideas. Metaphors do not use like or as.

  • Teachers model how to identify metaphors in a text. 

  • Teachers provide opportunities for students to find metaphors in text.   

  • Teachers provide opportunities for students to receive feedback as they find metaphors in texts.

 

Idioms

  • Teachers introduce idioms and explain that an idiom is an expression with a unique meaning that cannot be derived from its literal words (e.g., It’s raining cats and dogs.).

  • Teachers model how to identify idioms in a text.

  • Teachers provide opportunities for students to find examples of idioms in a text.

  • Teachers provide opportunities for students to receive feedback as they find idioms in texts.

 

Personification

  • Teachers review what personification is. 

  • Teachers model how to identify personification in a text.

  • Teachers provide opportunities for students to find examples of personification in a text.

  • Teachers provide opportunities for students to receive feedback as they find personification in texts.

 

Hyperbole

  • Teachers review what hyperbole is. 

  • Teachers model how to identify hyperbole in a text.

  • Teachers provide opportunities for students to find examples of hyperbole in a text.

  • Teachers provide opportunities for students to receive feedback as they find examples of hyperbole in texts.

 

Simile

  • Teachers review what a simile is.

  • Teachers model how to identify a simile in a text.

  • Teachers provide opportunities for students to find examples of similes in a text.

  • Teachers provide opportunities for students to receive feedback as they find similes in texts.

 

Alliteration

  • Teachers review what alliteration is.

  • Teachers model how to identify alliteration in a text.

  • Teachers provide opportunities for students to find examples of alliteration in a text.

  • Teachers provide opportunities for students to receive feedback as they find examples of alliteration in texts.

 

Onomatopoeia

  • Teachers review what onomatopoeia is.  

  • Teachers model how to identify onomatopoeia in a text.

  • Teachers provide opportunities for students to find examples of onomatopoeia in a text.

  • Teachers provide opportunities for students to receive feedback as they find examples of onomatopoeia in texts. 

Recommendations
Key Terms & Related Objectives

When students struggle to understand metaphors, teachers can...

  • develop an anchor chart with the definition and illustrations for students to refer to.

  • develop or brainstorm a list of metaphors for students to reference.


When students struggle to identify idioms, teachers can…

  • explain that idioms convey a lot of meaning in a few words. 

  • have the students make a classroom illustrated dictionary of idioms.  Assign an idiom to each student.  Have the students illustrate and define their idiom.  

  • have the students complete compare and contrast charts comparing an idiom’s literal meaning with its figurative meaning. 


When students struggle to understand personification, teachers can…

  • develop an anchor chart with the definition and illustrations for students to refer to.

 

  • Alliteration: the repetition of the same initial consonant sound of each word in the connected text (e.g., Harry the happy hippo hula-hoops with Henrietta).

  • Hyperbole: an obvious and deliberate exaggeration; an extravagant statement (e.g., We ate our body weight in queso.).

  • Idiom: an expression with a unique meaning that cannot be derived from its literal words (e.g., It’s raining cats and dogs.)

  • Metaphor: a symbolic comparison of two unlike objects or ideas.

  • Onomatopoeia: words that mimic the sounds they describe.

  • Personification: the bestowing of human qualities on animals, ideas, or things (e.g., In The House on Mango Street, Esperanza describes her house as having “windows so small you’d think they were holding their breath.”).

  • Simile: a comparison of two things that are unlike, usually using the words like or as.

  • 4.3.R.3 :  Literary Elements

  • 4.3.W.1 Narrative Writing

  • 4.8.R:  Independent Reading 

  • 4.8.W: Independent Writing 

 

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