CCSS ELA Standard: 5.L.5.a

Let's take a starting phrase about St. Patrick's Day and get specific. No, even more specific!

Let's write a holiday song about order and chaos!

Let's write the cleverest Mother's Day cards you've ever seen!

Let's make this simile about a strong uncle even more specific.

Students will make this slimy broccoli simile seriously specific.

Let's make this simile about a quick baby even more specific.

Let's make this simile about a loud class super specific!

Students will make this simile about stinky seaweed super specific.

Students will look closely at this old image and write a short, structured poem.

Let's start with "As cold as fire."

What if we started a sentence with the simile?

What if an inanimate object could express thanks for a special person in your life? What would it write?

Let's take a classic Christmas poem and remix it to work with another holiday!

Is your students' use of repetition limited to, "The girl was very, very, very fast."? Let's borrow some ideas from Shakespeare!

We'll start with the cliché "as cold as ice" and go somewhere much more interesting.