3rd grade environment Common Core L.6.5 resources

Similes and Nature Photography PowerPoint

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28 PowerPoint slideshow lessons to help your students identify and create unique similes in their writing: as round as a berry, as wrinkly as a fallen leaf, as quiet as a creek, as bumpy as a tree stump, as bright as a flower, and more.Each page has a beautiful photo of a bird on a branch, a caterpillar eating a petal, a feather, a creek, a stump, a fallen leaf, berries, a squirrel eating a nut, a lizard staring at me out of the corner of its eye, a honey bee on a flower, a hummingbird on a bra

Subjects:

Environment, Informational Text, Writing

Grades:

3rd - 8th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Activities

CCSS:

L.3.5

, L.4.5

, L.4.5a

, L.5.5

, L.5.5a

...

Also included in: Science and Nature PowerPoint BUNDLE

Using SIMILES to describe Persons, Places or Things (Nouns)

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The Gifted Writer

31 printable or digital pages to guide your students in using similes to describe a person, place or thing: as nervous as a blue jay on a branch, as watchful as a lizard on a log, as pushy as a mushroom after a storm, as noisy as a hungry woodpecker in the spring, as crowded as a stalk full of aphids, as sharp as the spines on a cactus, as wrinkly as an old leaf, as empty as a snail’s old shell, as slow as a shield bug trying to get away, and more.Wildlife photos on each page: a flower, a gnar

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Environment, Writing

Grades:

3rd - 7th

Types:

Activities, Homework, Printables

CCSS:

RL.5.4

, L.3.5

, L.4.5

, L.4.5b

, L.5.5

...

Similes in Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences

Created by

The Gifted Writer

20 printable or digital pages exploring similes in simple, compound and complex sentences: as noisy as a bumblebee, as safe as a roly-poly, as quick as a lizard, as thin as a feather, as pretty as a flower, and more.Students use wildlife photos to create similes on each page: a caterpillar crawling across a flower, a bumble bee searching for nectar, a roly-poly curled into a ball, a lizard wondering why I am so close, a discarded feather next to a leaf, a blue and white bird in a tree, a slug

Subjects:

Environment, Vocabulary, Writing

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Homework, Printables, Independent Work Packet

CCSS:

L.2.1f

, L.3.1i

, L.3.5

, L.4.2c

, L.4.5