Student Teaching edTPA Lesson Plan Template

Subject: Central Focus:

3rd Grade Vocabulary Reviewing Figurative language

Essential Standard/Common Core Objective:

3.RL.4 Determine meaning of nonliteral language
Date submitted: Date taught: 3/23/17
with a focus on context clues, similes, metaphors,
and idioms.
Daily Lesson Objective:
Performance: Students will be able to identify figurative language statements as similes, metaphors, idioms, hyperboles,
or personification. Students will also be able to write their own sentences using similes, metaphors, idioms, hyperboles,
and personification.
Conditions: Students will work independently on the Figurative Language worksheet.
Criteria: Students are expected to correctly answer 8 out of 10 questions correctly on the worksheet for 80 percent
accuracy. Answers in the second section must be written in full sentences.

21st Century Skills: communication, collaboration Academic Language Demand (Language Function and
Vocabulary): nonliteral language, similes, metaphors, idioms,
hyperbole, personification

Prior Knowledge: Students need to be able to speak and write in full sentences and have been previously introduced to
figurative language.

Activity Description of Activities and Setting Time

I will go over how sometimes authors write words without the intention of the 3 minutes
reader taking them literally. This is called figurative language and is
1. Focus and Review
something authors use to exaggerate what they are saying or compare things.

The objective will be written on the board and I will say Today we are going 1 miunte
2. Statement of Objective
to review the figurative language you have been learning the past few weeks.
for Student
I will tell students to join me on the carpet and review and define the five 10
parts of figurative language students have previously learned. Before minutes
beginning I will tell students to turn and talk to a partner about what they
know about idioms, similes, metaphors, hyperboles, and personification. (one
part of figurative language at a time) An idiom is a phrase thats words cannot
be taken literally and have a different meaning when they are grouped
together. For example Dont chicken out! A simile is a statement where two
3. Teacher Input
things are compared using the words like or as. For example She is as happy
as a clam. A metaphor is a statement that says one thing is the same as
something else. For example The snow is a white blanket. A hyperbole is a
figure of speech that includes exaggeration. I am so hungry I could eat a cow.
Personification gives human qualities to objects, concepts, or animals. For
example the stars are smiling at us.

4. Guided Practice
As a class I will ask students to give me full sentence examples of idioms, 15
metaphors, similes, hyperboles, and personification (2-3 examples for each minutes
one). If students confuse the figures of speech I will allow them to struggle at
first, then I will help lead them to make a proper sentence. Students will also
be directed to the posters on the board defining the different figurative speech
as guidance to make the sentences.
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Students will independently complete the attached worksheet in which they minutes
identify types of figurative language and write their own sentences using it.
5. Independent Practice
Students are expected to independently complete the worksheet and it will be
turned in.

6. Assessment Methods of
all objectives/skills:
7. Closure
I will collect students worksheets completed during independent practice. There are ten
questions and each one will be worth 1 point for a possible total of 10 points. The answers
in the second section must be written in full sentences to receive credit.
2 minutes
After all of the worksheets have been turned in I will ask 2-3 students to recall
example sentences they wrote and identify which figure of speech has been
used.

Out of 13 students, 7 scored lower than the mastery criteria of 80 percent and 6 scored 80
percent or higher. The high score was 10/10 and the low score was 4/10. Students excelled
8. Assessment Results of
in identifying figures of speech when given a sentence, but many students struggled when
all objectives/skills:
they had to write their own sentences using similes, metaphors, idioms, hyberboles, and
personification.

Targeted Students Modifications/Accommodations Student/Small Group Modifications/Accommodations

I will provide support and further explanation for
struggling students during guided and independent
practice. I will continue to remind these students to
refer to the posters on the board that contain
descriptions of the different things we will be
reviewing.
While students are completing their worksheets I will confer
with 2-3 high achieving students and challenge them with
reading a book and identifying the five different types of
figurative language we reviewed throughout the book. All
students can take on this challenge when they have completed
their worksheets.

Materials/Technology: Figurative language posters, pencils, worksheets, books

Reflection on lesson:
Name____________________________________________

Directions: Use the word bank to identify the figurative language used in each sentence.

Simile Hyperbole Idiom

Metaphor Personification

1. My dog is as crazy as a clown. ____________________________

2. When my brother had the flu he was sick as a dog. _____________________________

3. The leaves were like ballerinas twirling in the wind. ______________________________

4. My class is a circus when the teacher is out. _____________________________

5. Lucy was so hungry she could eat a million cookies. ______________________________

Directions: Make your own sentences using figurative language.

Simile:

Personification:

Hyperbole:

Idiom:

Metaphor: