Florida Test Prep Language Skills Workbook Idioms, Adages, Similes, & Metaphors: Skill-Building Practice for Grade 3, Grade 4, and Grade 5

By F Hawas

This book offers an organized program where students complete focused exercises to develop a key language skill required of Florida students. The exercises increase from easy, to moderate, and then to advanced. This leveled and focused approach will introduce students at a comfortable level and then build on the skills so that students reach and then exceed grade level expectations.

Key Features
- 101 exercises covering idioms, phrases, adages, proverbs, similes, metaphors, and hyperbole
- 10 complete sets of exercises organized into easy, moderate, and advanced
- vocabulary, reading level, and difficulty increase through the sets
- format allows for review and feedback as the student progresses

Develops Key Language Skills
- produces a thorough understanding of idioms
- provides practice recognizing the meaning of common phrases
- encourages students to understand and relate to proverbs and adages
- helps students identify and analyze the use of sensory language
- develops the ability to understand and use similes and metaphors
- introduces exaggeration and hyperbole
- helps students understand the literal and nonliteral meanings of words
- increases vocabulary and enhances knowledge of word meanings

Improves Performance on the FSA ELA Tests
- improves reading comprehension skills
- helps students perform well on questions about idioms, adages, proverbs, similes, and metaphors
- improves performance on written composition tasks

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1724954210
• ISBN13: 9781724954213
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.0" x 10.0"