Figurative Language Quick Starts Workbook

The Figurative Language Quick Starts workbook features activities that include multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, concept application, and creative responses. Quick starts explain and illustrate each of the types of figurative language included: imagery, simile, metaphor, personification, allusion, symbolism, hyperbole, and more. Each page features two to four quick starts that can be cut apart and used separately. The entire page may also be used as a whole-class or individual assignment. The Quick Starts Series provides students in grades 4 through 8+ with quick review activities in science, math, language arts, and social studies. The activities provide students with a quick start for the day’s lesson and help students build and maintain a powerful domain-specific vocabulary. Each book is correlated to current state, national, and provincial standards. Mark Twain Media Publishing Company specializes in providing engaging supplemental books and decorative resources to complement middle- and upper-grade classrooms. Designed by leading educators, the product line covers a range of subjects including mathematics, sciences, language arts, social studies, history, government, fine arts, and character.

The Figurative Language Quick Starts workbook features activities that include multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, concept application, and creative responses.

Figurative Language Quick Starts is part of the Quick Starts series, which provides students in grades 4 through 8+ with quick review activities that start the day’s lesson off right and help students build and maintain a powerful language arts vocabulary. Each page features two to four quick starts that can be cut apart and used separately. The entire page may also be used as a whole-class or individual assignment. Concepts covered include imagery, simile, metaphor, adage, idiom, cliché, personification, allusion, symbolism, hyperbole, and synecdoche. Use the quick starts: - to start the day’s lesson; - as a pre-test assessment; - as review for test prep; - displayed on a whiteboard or classroom projection device; - or in a learning center for students who have extra time. Correlated to current national, state, and provincial standards