Alliteration is a type of figurative language that is often used to engage a reader’s senses. Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration in context.
"Casey at the Bat" is a poem written by Ernest Thayer in 1888. Children will read this poem all the way through, then go back and answer the questions for each stanza.
Sometimes looking inside a word can help determine the meaning just like using context clues! In this lesson, students will learn to use roots and affixes as clues to the meaning of a word.
Making inferences from texts about the Plains States, your students will learn how to read with a purpose! In this lesson, your students will practice important skills while developing knowledge of various states.
Guide your students towards understanding what it takes to be a reading detective! By identifying synonyms and looking up definitions, they’ll familiarize themselves with some key vocabulary.
In this vocabulary-building worksheet, children will look at seven homographs, then write two sentences that reflect each of each word's meaning and part of speech.
Reading is about to come alive with onomatopoeia! In this lesson students will learn to differentiate between alliteration and onomatopoeia and practice determining how onomatopoeia is used by authors to convey rich meaning.
Teach your students about contradictory phrases that go by the funny sounding name of "oxymoron." After your students match two words together to make oxymorons, they’ll write their own creative sentences using this fun figurative language tool.