Teaching figurative language is as easy as pie with this lesson. Give students a chance to explore different kinds of figurative language as they develop their own comic strip.
Students will be able to identify and use figurative language.
Introduction
(10 minutes)
Start the lesson by reading a book (or passage of a book) to the class that contains examples of figurative language. Saturdays and Teacakes has great examples of figurative language.
Define figurative language to the class as a tool that authors use to help readers visualize what is happening in a story or poem.
Point out examples of figurative language as you find them in the text. For example, in Saturdays and Teacakes, Laminack writes: “In Mammaw’s big kitchen, sunlight poured through the windows like a waterfall and spilled over the countertops, pooling up on the checkerboard floor.”
Explain that this passage is an example of simile, a figure of speech that compares two things, using the words like or as.