100 Task Cards: Figurative Language: Reproducible Mini-Passages With Key Questions to Boost Reading Comprehension Skills

100 Task Cards: Figurative Language: Reproducible Mini-Passages With Key Questions to Boost Reading Comprehension Skills

Justin Mccory Martin, Carol Ghiglieri
$12.99
Publication Date: January 1st, 2020
Publisher:
Scholastic Teaching Resources
ISBN:
9781338603156
Pages:
80
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Description

Your students’ comprehension—and writing—abilities will soar with this big collection of no-prep, task cards that teach all about figurative language! Each reproducible card contains a high-interest mini-passage and five key questions to hone must-know skills—in just ten minutes a day. Cards provide guided support to help students master idioms, metaphors, similes, personification, hyperbole, understatement, irony, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and more. Perfect for ESL students and aspiring writers!

About the Author

Carol Ghiglieri is a writer and editor who works in both trade and educational publishing. She has written a number of books for struggling and emerging readers, including books for Scholastic’s Read 180 program.

Justin McCory Martin is a freelance writer for children and adults. He is the author of two books, FAN-TASTIC BASEBALL and FAN-TASTIC FOOTBALL, and his articles have appeared in Newsweek, Fortune, and Travel & Leisure, among other magazines.