ALEX Learning Activity Resources

Title: I'm in an interrelationship!
Digital Tool: Animoto
Web Address URL: https://animoto.com
Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (5) 42: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. [L.5.5]
Digital Tool 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. 

Title: Rap to the Sounds of Figurative Language1
Digital Tool: YouTube Video
Web Address URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K9pd6h9JT0#
Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (7) 40: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. [L.7.5]
Digital Tool 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

Title: Purposeful Puppets: An Introduction to Literary Devices
Digital Tool: Literary Devices Puppet Theatre
Web Address URL: http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=27615&title=Literary_Devices_Puppet_Theatre
Standard(s):
[ELA2015] (5) 42: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. [L.5.5]
Digital Tool 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.