ELA

Identify the simile

• I like apples.
• Apples taste sweet.
• You're the apple of my eye.
• This apple is as sweet as candy.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Identify the metaphor

• My heart was a bucket full of joy after all the sweet compliments.
• My heart is a muscle.
• My heart is like a hand pump pushing blood all throughout my body.
• My heart is like a muscle.

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.L.4.5A

Simile or Metaphor:
My father is a bear in the morning.

• simile
• metaphor

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A simile.....

• tells what a person likes
• compares two unlike things using the words like or as
• compares two similar things 
• tells what a person is doing

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

I like to eat fish.

• Simile
• Not a simile

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CCSS.L.3.1G

What is an idiom?

• A bird?
• A device used to confuse the reader.
• A word or phrase that does not mean what it says.
• A group of words that begin with the same sound.

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CCSS.L.1.4A

CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.1.4

What does it mean to say: "It's raining cats and dogs!"?

• Cats and dogs are falling from the sky.
• It's raining very heavily.
• We are having a tornado.
• Animals have learned to fly.

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CCSS.L.1.4A

CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.1.7

What is a couch potato?

• A person who likes to eat potatoes on the couch.
• A potato pillow.
• A person who likes to sit and watch tv on the couch.
• A person who likes to play hot potato.

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CCSS.L.1.4A

CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.1.2

CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.1.7

CCSS.SL.1.2

Why do author's use idioms?

• To make their writing more interesting.
• To confuse the audience.
• To be mean.
• To cause frustration in the reader.

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CCSS.RI.1.8

She likes to _______ bread

• Study

• Drink

• Talk

• Eat

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CCSS.L.1.4A