A comprehensive series of worksheets exploring nine essential literary devices through reading passages, identification tasks, and creative writing exercises.

Analyze direct and indirect comparisons to understand how they deepen meaning in creative writing.

Focus on the sounds of language through alliteration and onomatopoeia in descriptive storytelling.

Delve into the world of contradictions and unexpected outcomes with passages featuring irony and paradox.

Explore how authors use exaggeration and human traits to bring stories to life through reading and analysis.

A comprehensive recording sheet for students to document their practice and creative work from all figurative language lessons in one central location.

Focusing on hyperbole and sound devices like onomatopoeia and alliteration. Includes introductory slides and a practice worksheet.

Focusing on personification: giving human traits to non-human things. Includes introductory slides and a practice worksheet.

Focusing on metaphors: direct comparisons. Includes introductory slides and a practice worksheet.

Focusing on similes: comparisons using 'like' or 'as'. Includes introductory slides and a practice worksheet.

An introductory lesson covering the primary types of figurative language with integrated reading passages and creative writing exercises.

Students will identify overused, 'tired' words in a narrative passage and learn how to replace them with precise synonyms to improve descriptive writing through a detective-themed investigation.

A lesson focused on distinguishing between effective and ineffective paraphrasing and summarizing techniques using the context of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca civilizations. Students will read a short passage and categorize various examples into 'good' or 'bad' buckets.

A problem-solving workshop for B2+ students based on social media flash mobs. Students act as a city's 'Digital Response Team' to design innovative solutions for urban chaos triggered by viral trends.

An introductory lesson exploring various types of figurative language through clear examples and integrated practice questions.

This lesson introduces nine key figurative language devices through interactive slides and practice. Students identify definitions, analyze examples, and create their own original phrases while reviewing previous concepts.

A comprehensive lesson targeting 12 pairs/trios of commonly confused words through a "Grammar Lab" theme. Students will identify, define, and correctly apply homophones and tricky word pairs through direct instruction and a hands-on sorting game.

A deep dive into Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart', focusing on the mechanics of suspense, the psychology of the unreliable narrator, and the sharp edge of gothic irony.

The final summative assessment for the Decoding Blueprints unit, covering all 6 syllable types and 4 division patterns.

Final review and team building activity before the summative project.

Combines all syllable types and division patterns into complex mixed-practice word challenges.

Introduces the 'Schwa' sound in unstressed syllables and how to identify it during structural inspections.

Focuses on compound words and how to divide them as the simplest multisyllabic structure.

A review of lessons 21-24 with a formal progress monitoring assessment on vowel teams, diphthongs, C-le, and V/V patterns.