CCSS ELA Standard: 5.L.5

What are examples of unseen Power? And can invisible power be more powerful than visible power?

Dust can mean “remove dust” but also “add more dust!”

Now let’s try the Path Cipher – a cipher that mixes things up even more than Zig Zag did.

Five sets of idioms related to money.

Five sets of idioms related to fire!

Four fantastically terrific tasks for a weekly idiom study.

Five sets of idioms related to the weather.

Five sets of idioms related to the color red.

So what could you do with a Universal Theme of Power? Well, here’s an introduction that will get your students’ brains sweating.

Two sets of idioms related to numbers.

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

Five sets of five idioms, all related to body parts!

Five sets of five idioms, all related to food.

Can you think of times when power is unseen, but we can clearly see its effects?

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.

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

We’ll take two seemingly unrelated pieces of content (say volcanoes and the human body) and then build analogies to connect the two ideas. In the end, students can create a skit, comic, or story relating the two concepts.

So, which is happiest: happy, joyful, or ecstatic? Which is most temporary?

Get better at giving presentations by studying the greats!

How can one idea pull in opposite directions, being both true and false or right and wrong at the same time? It’s time to explore Paradoxes!

Let’s make valentines with an educational twist!