figurative language By danielle

Personification books:
The Nose by Catherine Cowan
Call Me Ahnihgito by Pam conrad
Night Noises by Mem Fox (also for similes)
also comic strips

Simile and Metaphor books: Any chapter from Island of the Blue Dolphins and Maniac Magee depending on the grade level.

for similes you can have them create riddles comparing two objects.

metaphors: create a metaphor poem about their family. For example

my family lives in a medicine chest:
dad is the super size band aid, strong and powerful but not always effective in a crisis.
mom is the middle size tweezer which picks and pokes and pinches.

I hope you get the idea of the poem. The unit is the medicine cabinet and the elements are the things found in the cabinet.

for personification: have them work with a partner and create a commercial that uses personification

danielle