Dalton's Dress-Up Dilemma - a Figurative Language Book

By: Fair, Marcy Christine

Teaching figurative language is fun, but finding examples of every style of figurative language in one place can take time and effort.

As a reading teacher, I would spend hours trying to find books with multiple examples of figurative language in the text. I would find a couple of examples in one book and a few more in another. It is also challenging to be able to show students how people use figurative language in daily conversation. When I would teach styles, I would have to read multiple poems or paragraphs to show kids one or two of the styles. This could take more classroom time than I had to master this skill.

So my plan for teaching a fun unit often lost my student's interest reasonably quickly. Plus, I wasn't sure if the kids in my classroom or those I tutored grasped what onomatopoeia, idioms, metaphors, similes, alliteration, imagery, oxymorons, personification, and hyperbole were.

This is why I wrote the story Dalton's Dress-Up Dilemma! This book is color coded and has multiple examples of each figurative language style on each page. Each character in the story represents a different style, and kids can clearly see how figurative language can be used in everyday language. Also, to go along with the book are a variety of lessons, both free and paid versions. These lessons can help the teacher to check student understanding of this skill. (Details are inside the book and on my website marcysmayhem.com)

This book can be used for a teacher read-aloud, in classroom libraries, for tutoring, to be read to a child before bedtime, or wherever kids love to read.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1703697634
• ISBN13: 9781703697636
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 8.5"