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=Return to Class Page= Students will read, comprehend and various types of informations texts.

[|The Learning Network]

[|Acuity]

[|Renaissance Place]

[|Earobics Reading Program] = = =Read Aloud= Listen to "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost Mini-Lesson [|What is a Metaphor?]

Reading Critically
What is the metaphor? Read the handout of "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost Focus on the element of Metaphor

Some students will read the cartoon version. Some Students will color the cartoons during the discussion.

=Independent Work:= Go to the Metaphor Website above and do the practice at the bottom of the page. How many did you get right? Read the //Classic Example of Metaphor// What is this Sonnet a metaphor for?

Some students will have examples read to them by an Educational Assistant. Some students will go to [|It's Fun to Read Poetry] and listen to poems.

=Summary= Share your findings with the class.

Group 1
[|Starfall] [|Puzzles & Games - NY Library] [|Alphabet Action]

Group 2
[|Sight Words #1] [|Sight Words #2] [|Sight Words #3] [|Read Along Story Books - NY Library] [|Audio Books - NY Library] [|Lil' Fingers]

Group 3
[|Sight Words #4] [|Sight Words #5] [|Starfall Books] [|Story Books - NY Library] [|New Books - NY Library] [|Fable Library]

Group 4
[|America's Story] [|Big Universe Books] [|Aesop's Fables] = =