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Playlist: AL 4TH LITERACY

Getting Specific With St. Patrick’s Day Writing

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

Go Beyond “Identify Figurative Language”

For Teachers

So students can identify a simile, metaphor, and hyperbole. What next?

Words Within Words: CORNMAZE

How many words can you find within CORNMAZE?

Words Within Words: SCARECROW

How many words can you find within “scarecrow”?

A Halloween Costume Gone Wrong

Let’s go roller skating in a Halloween costume! What could possibly go wrong?

Words Within Words: TEACHER

How many words can you find within TEACHER?

Fancier Figurative Language: Move the Simile

What if we started a sentence with the simile?

Jotto

Who can guess the codeword first?

Punctuation Power

In a sentence, punctuation may seem meek when compared to those mighty words, but punctuation has incredible power over the meaning of a sentence. Students will try re-punctuating sentences to find new meanings – without changing a single word!

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.

Ghost

Ghost is a word-building game for two players. The first person to create an actual word loses.

Writing Clear Directions

Can you write directions so clear that a group of kids can put a toy together with no illustrations?