Evaluation #4

Figurative Language
Expectations and Learning skills:
Language arts:
Share personal responses to explore, and develop understanding of oral
print and other media texts.
Explain how onomatopoeia and alliteration are used to create mental
images.
Recognize how words and word combinations, such as word play, repletion
and rhyme, influence or convey meaning
Adjust volume, tone of voice and gestures appropriately to suit a variety
of social and classroom activities.
Take responsibility for collaborating with others to achieve group goals.
Today students will demonstrate their understanding of figurative language
such as personification, simile, alliteration, hyperbole, and metaphor.
Lesson:
We will begin by exploring common phrases such as:
Im so hungry I could eat a cow
The leaves danced in the wind
Peter Piper picked peppers
He was scary as a dragon
I will explain that these common phrases and ones just like are called
figurative language.
I will introduce each type of figurative language to the whole class briefly on
the smartboard, following my lesson. We will look at an example of each as
well.
The class will then be randomly separated into 5 groups. Each group will be
assigned a different type of figurative language. They will have 3 tasks
where they will be exploring figurative language as a group and learning from
one another.
Task #1: Poems
Read the definition and example of your figurative langage.
Read through your poem and identify your figurative language in the poem.
NOTE: Each poem has the assigned figurative language in every verse. It may
seem easy to identify but will lead up to task #2

Each group must share an example of their figurative language with the
class.
Task #2: Passage
The students will read through a passage that has many types of figurative
language. The must identify only their type.
NOTE: This task is more challenging then task #1 and they will have to
carefully read.
Each group will share an example with the class and explain why it is an
example.
Task #3: Example
The entire group will have to write one example of their figurative language
on a strip of paper to share with the class. These will be collected and used
for another language arts lesson.
Conclusion:
Students will be a sticky note and will write a figurative language phrase on
it. They will place it on our board and I will check it from comprehension.
They will then have the chance to share their example. Students will be
asked to look for figurative language throughout the day when they are
reading.
Assessment/Evaluation:
Anecdotal notes based on group work and sticky note post.

Continuation in next classes:

LA #2
More figurative language: students will have an opportunity to visit all
stations.
LA #3
We will use the example the students came up with to play an identifying
game where students will need to categorize the figurative language
examples.
Art
Onomatopoeia poems and artwork that imitates the sound.