CALIFORNIA TEST PREP Language Skills Workbook Idioms, Adages, Similes, & Metaphors: Skill-Building Practice for Grade 3, Grade 4, and Grade 5 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781726274913)

This book offers an organized program where students complete focused exercises to develop a key language skill required of students. The exercises increase from easy, to moderate, and then to advanced. This leveled and focused approach will introduce students at a comfortable level and then build on the skills so that students reach and then exceed grade level expectations.

Key Features
- 101 exercises covering idioms, phrases, adages, proverbs, similes, metaphors, and hyperbole
- 10 complete sets of exercises organized into easy, moderate, and advanced
- vocabulary, reading level, and difficulty increase through the sets
- format allows for review and feedback as the student progresses

Develops Key Language Skills
- produces a thorough understanding of idioms
- provides practice recognizing the meaning of common phrases
- encourages students to understand and relate to proverbs and adages
- helps students identify and analyze the use of sensory language
- develops the ability to understand and use similes and metaphors
- introduces exaggeration and hyperbole
- helps students understand the literal and nonliteral meanings of words
- increases vocabulary and enhances knowledge of word meanings

Author: C. Hawas
ISBN-10: 1726274918
ISBN-13: 9781726274913
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 08/28/2018
Pages: 132
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.28d