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📖 5th Grade · ELAL.5.5aUnit 5: Vocabulary: roots, figurative language & relationships

Figurative language

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🎯 Objective: Students interpret similes and metaphors in context.

Lesson outline

  1. Find in poems.
  2. Explain.
  3. Write.
  4. Exit: one interpretation.

Lesson 3 of 5 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.5.5a

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 5 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Use Greek and Latin affixes and roots
  • Interpret figurative language
  • Use word relationships

✅ 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 5th Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Vocabulary: roots, figurative language & relationships”

  1. Greek roots
  2. Latin roots
  3. Figurative language
  4. Idioms, adages, proverbs
  5. Word relationships

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