You will read carefully in order to identify allusion, imagery, metaphor, and symbolism and to evaluate their impact on the meaning of a text.

You will read carefully in order to identify diction, tone, and irony and evaluate their impact on the meaning of a text.

In this activity, students get to combine the world of literacy and physical movement! As the teacher reads the book “Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now” by Dr. Seuss, students listen carefully 

Get your students up and moving in this Kindergarten through 5th grade activity that connects literacy, creativity and movement! Students act out different animals in the book “Waddle” as the teacher reads aloud. 

The Burnham Brothers sing "Reading with Feeling," a song explaining the importance of reading with the feelings ascribed to the characters and events. This resource teaches reading techniques and fluency.

You will be able to identify and explain the purpose of irony, sarcasm, and paradox in a text.

You will read and annotate paired texts in order to make inferences, draw conclusions, and synthesize ideas and details using textual evidence.

You will read and annotate paired texts in order to make inferences, draw conclusions, and synthesize ideas and details using textual evidence.

You will apply what you learned in previous lessons, (1) Linguistic Roots and Affixes, (2) Denotation and Connotation, (3) Origins and Meanings of Foreign Words, (4) Cognates, and (5) Reference Materials, to improve your fluency and comprehension.

You will learn how to annotate or mark a text as you read and re-read to gain a deeper understanding of the text.

You will be able to recognize and explain the purpose of understatement and overstatement in a text.

You will be able to evaluate the diction in a text and discover the author's tone.

You will be able to differentiate between supported and unsupported opinions in a text.

You will be able to explain why literary essays include personal opinions and facts to describe an event or situation.

You will be able to explain an expository essay's controlling idea, purpose, and important supporting details.

You will be able to identify the similes and metaphors in a text and evaluate their importance to the meaning of the text.

You will be able to recognize dramatic irony and explain how it functions in a play.

You will be able to recognize the functions of monologue, soliloquy, and dramatic irony in a play.

You will be able to analyze the clarity of the objectives in software, warranties, and consumer manuals/publications.

You will be able to explain the function of symbolism and allegory in a text.