ALEX Learning Activity Resources

ALEX Learning Activities

Title: I'm in an interrelationship!
Description: Animoto is a cloud-based video creation service that produces video from photos, video clips, and music into video slideshows. The students will use the animoto website to create a video of how to we use antonyms, synonyms, and homonyms in our everyday speaking.
Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (5) 42:

42 ) Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. [L.5.5]

a. Interpret figurative language, including similes and metaphors, in context. [L.5.5a]

b. Recognize and explain the meaning of common idioms, adages, and proverbs. [L.5.5b]

c. Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., synonyms, antonyms, homographs) to better understand each of the words. [L.5.5c]

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Subject: English Language Arts (5)
Title: I'm in an interrelationship!
Description: Animoto is a cloud-based video creation service that produces video from photos, video clips, and music into video slideshows. The students will use the animoto website to create a video of how to we use antonyms, synonyms, and homonyms in our everyday speaking.

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Title: Rap to the Sounds of Figurative Language1
Description: YouTube Videos are readily availble on almost anything you can imagine. This video will spark ideas for the students and get them interested in the task of identifying the different kinds of figurative language
Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (7) 40:

40 ) Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. [L.7.5]

a. Interpret figures of speech (e.g., literary, biblical, and mythological allusions) in context. [L.7.5a]

b. Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., synonym/antonym, analogy) to better understand each of the words. [L.7.5b]

c. Distinguish among the connotations (associations) of words with similar denotations (definitions) (e.g., refined, respectful, polite, diplomatic, condescending). [L.7.5c]

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Subject: English Language Arts (5 - 7)
Title: Rap to the Sounds of Figurative Language1
Description: YouTube Videos are readily availble on almost anything you can imagine. This video will spark ideas for the students and get them interested in the task of identifying the different kinds of figurative language

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Title: Purposeful Puppets: An Introduction to Literary Devices
Description: This video was developed by high school students to introduce various literary devices to elementary students. Through the use of puppet theatre, the students describe literary devices and illustrate the use of each.
Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (5) 42:

42 ) Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. [L.5.5]

a. Interpret figurative language, including similes and metaphors, in context. [L.5.5a]

b. Recognize and explain the meaning of common idioms, adages, and proverbs. [L.5.5b]

c. Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., synonyms, antonyms, homographs) to better understand each of the words. [L.5.5c]

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Subject: English Language Arts (5)
Title: Purposeful Puppets: An Introduction to Literary Devices
Description: This video was developed by high school students to introduce various literary devices to elementary students. Through the use of puppet theatre, the students describe literary devices and illustrate the use of each.

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