Teaching figurative language high school

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Using Pixar films in the English Language Arts classroom is an engaging way to review literary terms. Read this post to learn how you can use this!

These ten top-notch short stories are perfect for teaching in middle school. Students can access the stories online.

Teaching Figurative Language can be fun and meaningful for your students. Teaching figurative language through poetry can make it even better! Here are my best tips for teaching similes, metaphors, idioms, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, imagery, alliteration, and personification.

Hosting a "photography contest" is an engaging way to reinforce figurative language and imagery by having students select a photograph connected to a theme and write a description for their image using imagery and figurative language.

Great lesson plan ideas to help you teach and review figurative language. Perfect for middle school students!

In this post, I'll teach you how to host a figurative language tasting activity--a lesson that gets kids writing explosive images every time!

For many educators, trying to convince students that figurative language is what MAKES literature is like telling them there was life before TikTok. Teaching figurative language in such a literal world can be a challenging task, but it can also be fun. Here are five engaging ways to teach figurative language.

Ready for one of my favorite ways to teach students about writing, reading, creativity, and even kindness? It’s something that elementary teachers have known all along…it’s the picture book! The picture book is a powerful instructional tool that can work in any classroom…and I thought I’d share some examples of my favorites with you today. I’ve put the collection of books in a simple (and free) PDF with links that you can download by clicking this LINK. I’ve also paired each book with a…