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📖 3rd Grade · ELAL.3.5aUnit 9: Poetry, drama & figurative language

Literal and nonliteral

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🎯 Objective: Students distinguish literal and nonliteral meanings (take steps).

Lesson outline

  1. Picture idioms: “raining cats and dogs”.
  2. Sort literal and nonliteral phrases.
  3. Discuss meanings.
  4. Exit: explain one idiom.

Lesson 1 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

L.3.5a

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 3 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Distinguish literal from nonliteral language
  • Refer to parts of poems and plays (stanza, scene)

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

📚 All 3rd Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Poetry, drama & figurative language”

  1. Literal and nonliteral
  2. Stanzas and lines
  3. Reading a play
  4. Write a poem

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