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Straight From the Horse's Mouth | Figurative Language Activity | Micro-Learning Deck

Straight From the Horse's Mouth | Figurative Language Activity | Micro-Learning Deck preview
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Look Inside · 10 pages

Cover of Straight from the Horse’s Mouth, a micro-learning deck on figurative language and comprehension
Cover of the idiom micro-learning deck
Lesson overview lists a video on a language concept, a reading passage with audio, comprehension, and quick write
Overview of the lesson components
Opening idiom prompt asks, “What do you think this means?” and provides space for a student response
Opening prompt about the idiom’s meaning
Video lesson slide introduces the idiom with a presenter and the subtitle “So if you get your information”
Video portion of the figurative language lesson
Reading passage explains getting information directly from a person involved and links the idiom to horse teeth
Reading passage with an audio option
Fill-in-the-blank comprehension activity has four sentences and the word bank facts, information, Straight, teeth
Four missing-word comprehension sentences
True-or-false activity checks four statements about facts, direct information, horse teeth, and rumors
Four true-or-false comprehension statements
Summary writing activity asks for one sentence each using First, Next, Also, and Last, with a six-word bank
Summary writing with four sentence prompts
Teacher directions explain preparation, a 30-minute activity estimate, lesson formats, icons, notes, and printing
Teacher guidance for using the deck
Accessibility overview lists font size, Lexend Deca, colored background, audio, icons, and writing templates
Overview of embedded learning supports
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About This Product

Straight From the Horse's Mouth | Figurative Language Activity | Micro-Learning Deck

The Straight From the Horse's Mouth | Figurative Language Activity | Micro-Learning Deck is an essential teaching tool for educators who are looking to boost their students' comprehension of figurative language. This resource, primarily designed for 4th to 7th Grade students, zeroes in on the phrase Straight From the Horse's Mouth, providing an exciting pathway to explore this concept.

Key Features

  • Multi-modal Teaching Approach: The deck includes a video lesson that provides a visual and auditory understanding of the figurative language term. Alongside this video lesson, there is also a text passage with matching audio, making it suitable for classroom or home learning.
  • Promotes Comprehension: After learners have gone through both video and reading assignments detailed exercises are provided which test their understanding and encourages them to put what they have learned into practice.
  • 'Quick Write' Exercise: Towards end of each lesson learners get an opportunity to articulate themselves using newly learned form of speech. This serves as either classwork or homework assignment.

This deck is formatted in Microsoft PowerPoint design making it usable for both online teaching methods and traditional projector systems / smart boards methods alike.

Beyond Knowledge Transfer

This resource do not merely impart knowledge but offers an engaging educational journey that reveals key elements of Language Arts curriculum thereby reinforcing comprehension skills in students while exposing them towards idiomatic phrases - all accomplished through fun-filled learning discovery process.

What's Included

1 PowerPoint with 13 ready to display slides

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