Alabama ELA Standard: 5.LF.12

Interpret the meaning of words, phrases, and patterns as they are used in texts, including domain-specific and academic vocabulary and figurative language.

Multiple Meaning Matcher – Zeta

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?

Gr 1-8

Multiple Meaning Matcher – Delta

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?

Gr 1-8

Multiple Meaning Matcher – Gamma

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?

Gr 1-8

Idioms About Money

Five sets of idioms related to money.

Gr 1-8

Idioms About Fire

Five sets of idioms related to fire!

Gr 3-8

Idiom Tasks

Four fantastically terrific tasks for a weekly idiom study.

Gr 3-8

Idioms about Weather

Five sets of idioms related to the weather.

Gr 1-8

Idioms About Red

Five sets of idioms related to the color red.

Gr 1-8

Sets of Idioms Related to Numbers

Two sets of idioms related to numbers.

Gr 1-8

Five Sets of Bird and Bug Idioms

Five sets of idioms related to birds (and bugs).

Gr 2-8

Fancier Figurative Language: Use the Opposite

Let’s start with “As cold as fire.”

Gr 1-8

Ambiguous Sentences

Rather than just demand that students “write clearly,” we’ll explore the hazards of poorly written sentences… and maybe create one of our own!

Gr 1-8

Sets of Idioms

Why do we say ‘break a leg’? Five themed sets of idioms your students will actually remember.

Gr 1-8

Multiple Meaning Matcher – Introduction

Your students will try to match up definitions that belong to the same homophone in this brain-boggling vocab puzzle.

Gr 1-8

Fancier Figurative Language: Start with a Cliche

We’ll start with the cliché “as cold as ice” and go somewhere much more interesting.

Gr 1-8

Grade 5

Literacy Foundations

Standards

Alabama ELA Standard: 5.LF.12