Figurative Language Activity - Famous Quotes Task Cards Labeling Activities
Figurative Language Activity - Famous Quotes Task Cards Labeling Activities: Help your students practice finding figurative language with this fun and engaging activity. Students will circulate the room to find task cards with famous quotes that contain figurative language. They will record what figure of speech they think the quote uses on their sheet. This figurative language activity covers the following: metaphor, simile, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and oxymoron.
Included in this Famous Quotes Task Cards Figurative Language Activity:
➡️ Teacher Instructions: The teacher instructions will guide you in how to best use these task cards in your classroom. It will also provide information on how to set up and organize the activity.
➡️ 28 Figurative Language Task Cards: Share these 28 engaging task cards with your students to practice labeling figurative language. Each card includes a quote from a famous person that uses an example of metaphor, simile, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, or oxymoron. Each card also includes a sentence, sharing information about the famous person.
➡️ Student Recording Page: Have students use the included recording sheet to keep track of which task cards they have completed. The recording page includes the famous people's names and a space for students to label what type of figurative language is used.
➡️ Student Figurative Language Reference Page: Share this short student reference sheet that includes definitions of each of the figures of speech with students that they can use during the figurative language activity.
➡️ Detailed Teacher Answer Key: Use the included teacher answer key to review the figurative language activity with students or quickly and easily grade their work.
Figurative Language Covered in This Figurative Language Activity:
- Metaphor
- Simile
- Personification
- Alliteration
- Onomatopoeia
- Oxymoron
What Teachers Are Saying About This Famous Quotes Task Cards Figurative Language Activity:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I love this so much and look forward to using it in the future as well. This shows practical and interesting uses of basic figurative language and is very student-friendly.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A really fun way to practice our figurative language! Students loved the 'celebrity factor' and I enjoyed the variety of figurative language used.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This resource was so much fun to use to reinforce figurative language, and students found it quite challenging. It was enjoyable to see them think and reason on some of the quotes!
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