Figurative Language Fun

This Thanksgiving themed mystery picture is a great way to review figurative language.  This is a great way to keep students engaged.  The students will identify sentences as being examples of simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, idiom, analogy, and symbolism.  These are all academic vocabulary terms that they must know in order to answer questions on state tests.  The students can verify that their answers are correct by coloring the picture according to the key.  I find mystery pictures help students stay actively engaged in a lesson, especially right before they go on a holiday break.  My middle school students, including my 8th graders, ask me to make more of these.  They tell me, "Mrs. Harnish, we love doing these.  Some teachers forget that we are still kids."  Here is the link if you are interested.

Figurative Language Mystery Picture Thanksgiving Theme

This week I want to discuss mystery pictures.  My middle school students love it when I give them a mystery picture.  They think that mystery pictures are a relaxing way to learn or review something.  The students are still practicing the skill, but then they get a chance to follow a key or code and color.  It makes a worksheet much more interesting.  The picture helps the students realize that they did the problems correctly.  Below are some examples of mystery pictures I use in my Language Arts classes.  If you are interested in using mystery pictures in your class, visit my store.  I have them for homonyms, figurative language, parts of speech, and word parts.  If you go to my freebies page, I posted a mystery picture freebie.

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