Grade 4
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Literacy Foundations
- 4.LF.2
- 4.LF.3
- 4.LF.4
- 4.LF.5
- 4.LF.8
- 4.LF.9
- 4.LF.10
- 4.LF.10.a
- 4.LF.10.b
- 4.LF.10.c
- 4.LF.13
- 4.LF.14
- 4.LF.15
- 4.LF.15.a
- 4.LF.15.b
- 4.LF.15.c
- 4.LF.16
- 4.LF.16.a
- 4.LF.16.b
- 4.LF.16.c
- 4.LF.17
- 4.LF.17.a
- 4.LF.17.b
- 4.LF.18
- 4.LF.18.a
- 4.LF.18.b
- 4.LF.19
- 4.LF.19.a
- 4.LF.19.b
- 4.LF.20
- 4.LF.20.a
- 4.LF.20.b
- 4.LF.20.c
- 4.LF.20.d
- 4.LF.21
- 4.LF.21.a
- 4.LF.21.c
- 4.LF.22
- 4.LF.22.a
- 4.LF.23
- 4.LF.23.a
- 4.LF.23.b
- 4.LF.24
- 4.LF.24.a
- 4.LF.25
- 4.LF.26
- 4.LF.27
- 4.LF.28
- 4.LF.30
- 4.LF.30.a
- 4.LF.30.b
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- 4.LF.32
- 4.LF.33
- 4.LF.33.a
- 4.LF.33.b
- 4.LF.33.c
- 4.LF.35
- 4.LF.36
- 4.LF.37
- 4.LF.38
- 4.LF.38.b
- 4.LF.38.c
- 4.LF.38.d
- 4.LF.38.f
- 4.LF.39
- 4.LF.39.a
- 4.LF.39.b
- 4.LF.39.c
- 4.LF.40
- 4.LF.41
- 4.LF.41.a
- 4.LF.42
- 4.LF.42.a
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Standards
Alabama ELA Standard: 4.LF.10.b
Explain how figurative language contributes to the meaning of text, including simile, metaphor, alliteration, personification, hyperbole, and idioms.
Idioms About Numbers 2
Five idioms related to numbers.
Idioms About Numbers 1
Five idioms related to numbers.
Idioms About Salt
Five idioms related to salt.
Idioms About Eggs
Five idioms related to eggs.
Idioms About Dessert
Five idioms related to dessert.
Idioms About Food 2
Five idioms related to food.
Idioms About Food 1
Five idioms related to food.
Idioms About Feet
Five idioms related to feet.
Idioms About Noses
Five idioms related to noses.
Idioms About Hands and Fingers
Five idioms related to hands and fingers.
Idioms About Hands
Five idioms related to hands.
Idioms About Body Parts
Five idioms related to body parts.
Idioms About Bugs
Five idioms related to bugs.
Idioms About Birds 2
Five idioms related to birds.
Idioms About Birds 1
Five idioms related to birds.
Idioms About Ducks
Five idioms related to ducks.
Idioms About Geese
Five idioms related to geese.
Idioms About Names
Five idioms related to names.
Idioms About Bites
Five idioms related to bites.
Idioms About the Greeks and Romans
Five idioms related to the Greeks and Romans.
Idioms About Mouths
Five idioms related to mouths.
Idioms About Water
Five idioms related to water.
Personification: A River
A river that chases, chuckles, and grips things with a gurgle. Your students will see how a writer turns plain water into a living creature, then try it themselves on fire, snow, or traffic.
Super Specific Similes – Strong Uncle
Let’s make this simile about a strong uncle even more specific.
Super Specific Similes – Slimy Broccoli
Start with a basic simile. Now make it more specific. Now even more. Watch how much better writing gets with each round.
Super Specific Similes: Quick Baby
Let’s make this simile about a quick baby even more specific.
Super Specific Similes: Loud Class
Let’s make this simile about a loud class super specific!
Super Specific Similes: Stinky Seaweed
Start with a basic simile. Now make it more specific. Now even more. Watch how much better writing gets with each round.
Idioms About Money
Five sets of idioms related to money.
Idioms About Fire
Five sets of idioms related to fire!
Idiom Tasks
Four fantastically terrific tasks for a weekly idiom study.
Idioms about Weather
Five sets of idioms related to the weather.
Idioms About Red
Five sets of idioms related to the color red.
Fancier Figurative Language: Use the Opposite
Let’s start with “As cold as fire.”
Fancier Figurative Language: Move the Simile
What if we started a sentence with the simile?
Fancier Figurative Language: Advanced Repetition
Is your students’ use of repetition limited to, “The girl was very, very, very fast.”? Let’s borrow some ideas from Shakespeare!
Advanced Alliteration and Consonance
When students learn about alliteration, it’s hard to steer them away from goofy tongue-twisters. Certainly, there must be more powerful and practical ways of using alliteration. In this lesson, I draw on delicious examples from Shakespeare to show how a very advanced writer used alliteration. Then, I break those ideas down so students can try them out.
What’s In My Brain: Cute Baby vs Fast Cheetah
Can students spot similes vs metaphors?
Fancier Figurative Language: Start with a Cliche
We’ll start with the cliché “as cold as ice” and go somewhere much more interesting.