Provide hands-on activities for practice and mastery. Check for understanding of concepts and skills by using relevant standard materials, i.e. worksheets, text problems, workbooks, teacher prepared exercises, etc.
Introduce the children to similes.
Objective: To elicit from the children details of the story.
Activity: Introduce the children to similes. (A figure of speech where two unlike things are compared.) Then have the children examine the text for similes. Have them find three.
