KAS ELA Standard: L.4.3.a

When I see a quote, I often think, “That’s not quite right!”

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

How many different ways can we use the word “care”? Let’s find out in this Parts of Speech Party!

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

Start with a basic simile. Now make it more specific. Now even more. Watch how much better writing gets with each round.

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

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

Start with a basic simile. Now make it more specific. Now even more. Watch how much better writing gets with each round.

Want your classroom discussions to go a bit more smoothly? Train students to use a few simple phrases and it’ll make all the difference in the world.

How can we go from Biology to Immobile?

Pi can go beyond circles! What if you wrote using the digits of pi as your guide?

Let’s start with “As cold as fire.”

What if we started a sentence with the simile?

A specific technique to help students add some spice to their writing. We’ll be contrasting two ideas using synonyms.

A specific technique to help students add some spice to their writing. We’ll be using antonyms to describe the same topic!

Students use 12 random phrases to create a story that takes place at the zoo.

Aristotle noted that positive traits and negative traits are often the same thing, but just in different amounts. The right amount is a virtue, but too much or too little and it’s a vice.

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

When students are told that they’re “smart”, what does this word actually mean to them? (Psst. It isn’t what we intended.)

Imagine a construction worker who doesn’t know the name of a screwdriver or a doctor who can’t remember what to call your neck. It’s pretty hard to communicate well without knowing the 👄 Language of the Discipline!

Bored with typical spelling studies? Let’s dig into the origins of common English words from other languages!

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