ELA-Author-FL-F

Author's Craft - Figurative Language - Print - Fiction Resources
A young girl travels on a train to go visit her grandmother. The language is descriptive, e.g., "The prairie is stitched together/in brown and yellow patches/like Grandma's quilt spread over the hills" or "The Great Northern is as quiet/as a frozen buffalo."
 * 3-5**
 * //Prairie Train// by Marsha Wilson Chall, ISBN-10: 0688134335 (similes)

After a family stumbles upon a fountain of youth, their reaction to their fate is a surprising one.
 * //Tuck Everlasting// by Natalie Babbit, ISBN-10: 0312369816 (metaphors)

A city girl sees the country with different eyes.
 * //Up North at the Cabin// by Marsha Wilson Chall, ISBN-10: 0688097324 (personification)

A harvest moon rises over its surroundings depicting objects in lovely language.
 * //Hello, Harvest Moon// by Ralph Fletcher, ISBN-10: 0618164510 (alliteration, metaphors)

The text has lyrical messages about light and its partner, darkness.
 * //Arctic Light, Arctic Nights// by Debbie Miller, ISBN-10: 0802796362 (onomatopoeia)

= = = = > This book is great to read with average students. It is chock full or figurative language of every type. This book has many types of figurative language.
 * 6-8**
 * //The Teacher’s Funeral// by Richard Peck (Puffin), 2004, ISBN:978-0-14-240507-9
 * //The Adventures of Tom Sawyer// by Mark Twain, Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, 1994, ISBN:978-0-448-40560-5


 * E1-E4**