What Does Nonliteral Mean? Language Activity
- Grades
- Grades 2–4
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- Preparation
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- Grammar, ESL, Reading, Language Development, ELA
- Topic
- Speaking and Listening, Independent and Guided Reading
- Resource types
- Literacy Readers
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This activity is a great way for students to learn about literal and non-literal language. It will help them to understand words and phrases as they are used in a text. This will be a valuable skill for them to have as they continue their education.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Distinguish literal from nonliteral meanings of words and phrases
Determine the meaning of an idiom or hyperbole from context
Teaching tips
The blank organizer lets students repeat the guess-then-check routine with phrases from a class read-aloud.
Skills covered
Interpreting figurative language — predicting and then checking the meaning of phrases like I could eat a horse
Using context clues — figuring out words such as ravenous and worriedly from the story
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