Has your student covered this material?

[TechWife]

I have a book on my shelf, Figuratively Speaking (http://www.amazon.com/Figuratively-Speaking-Gr-Learning-Works/dp/0881603171/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1295128495&sr=1-1), which covers literary terms in a workbook format. I pulled it off the shelf intending to work it in to our studies this semester. In reading through it, I am amazed at the concepts covered in this book. I know I didn't cover this material until high school. This book is for grades 5-8.

Could someone please tell me how familiar your student(s) in either a public or private school setting are with these concepts?

The book contains lessons in three categories, I am going to list the categories and then beside them write the covered concepts:

1) Figurative language: denotation & connotation; hyperbole; idiom; imagery; metaphor & simile; oxymoron & paradox; personification; symbol

2) Poetic Language: alliteration\; assonance & consonance, form, onomatopoeia, parallelism; repetition & refrain; rhyme; rhythm; run-on and end-stopping lines; stanza

3) literary techniques: allusion; characters & characterization; conflict; dialect; dialogue; flashback; foreshadowing; genre; irony; local color; mood & tone; moral & theme; narrator/point of view; plot; poetic license; pun; rhetorical question; satire, parody & farce; story within a story; stream of consciousness; surprise ending; suspense

I am wondering if it is time to panic, having not covered this material. Quite simply, it hadn't occurred to me it would be covered at such a young age.

Thank you for your help.

[mcconnellboys]

Yes, I put together a literary elements study for fifth grade and have continued to use some portions of it for the past couple of years. We've also done various poetry studies and I used a different workbook last year that covered different literary genres (which included a lot of what you have listed under literary techniques).

But I like the looks of this little book, too! Thanks for posting it,

[jibaker103]

When I pulled my son out of ps halfway through 7th and went over this book with him during the summer before 8th he new a lot of it (about 3/4 of it) already.

[Sasharowan]

My 9th grader, who is doing it this year, knows a lot of the stuff but not the formal names. Like Connotation, he knows subtle differences in words can change the meaning, but not the term for it.

[MBM]

I bought the same book this year to use with my son supplementally. He's in 8th grade, btw.

His school has taught about one-fourth of the terms, but just enough so the kids are familiar with them. Poetry is not taught at all. Makes me want to scream! (Well, in history, the kids have read poetry. Argh.)

Next year in 9th grade, he is supposed to begin learning more of those terms. Hmph. Guess we'll see about that.

HTH. :)

[HappyCamper]

My son's school (private for highly gifted) covered most of those concepts in the 4th and 5th grade. They really focused on poetry during the 4th grade. When I talk to parents at the neighborhood public school, through 5th grade, those topics are not being covered. Our neighborhood public school really focuses on teaching what is tested on the STAR test.:glare:

[Caroline]

They start covering these things in 4th grade and continue to discuss them through at least 10th grade. My oldest is in 10th grade so I am not sure beyond that. My kids just go to regular public schools.

[burleygirl]

My daughter is in the 7th grade and she has covered a majority of those terms this year. However, I am sure they will get covered again in 8th grade as well.

[NJKelli]

One of my dds just started public school this month. She has been learning about similes, metaphors, and hyperbole, and she's expected to use them in her writing. If she doesn't, she gets bad grades on the assignments. She is in third grade.

[AmyinMD]

My 7th grader has done some of the literary techniques but that's about it. They spend pretty much all their time in LA class practicing for state assessment testing. :glare:

[Mommyfaithe]

I have a book on my shelf, Figuratively Speaking (http://www.amazon.com/Figuratively-Speaking-Gr-Learning-Works/dp/0881603171/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1295128495&sr=1-1), which covers literary terms in a workbook format. I pulled it off the shelf intending to work it in to our studies this semester. In reading through it, I am amazed at the concepts covered in this book. I know I didn't cover this material until high school. This book is for grades 5-8.

Could someone please tell me how familiar your student(s) in either a public or private school setting are with these concepts?

The book contains lessons in three categories, I am going to list the categories and then beside them write the covered concepts:

1) Figurative language: denotation & connotation; hyperbole; idiom; imagery; metaphor & simile; oxymoron & paradox; personification; symbol

2) Poetic Language: alliteration\; assonance & consonance, form, onomatopoeia, parallelism; repetition & refrain; rhyme; rhythm; run-on and end-stopping lines; stanza

3) literary techniques: allusion; characters & characterization; conflict; dialect; dialogue; flashback; foreshadowing; genre; irony; local color; mood & tone; moral & theme; narrator/point of view; plot; poetic license; pun; rhetorical question; satire, parody & farce; story within a story; stream of consciousness; surprise ending; suspense

I am wondering if it is time to panic, having not covered this material. Quite simply, it hadn't occurred to me it would be covered at such a young age.

Thank you for your help.

CLE Reading covers these concepts in grades 5-8, but I wouldn't panic. Any child who has read good books, already has been exposed to these ideas. Now, using Figuratively Speaking, you can put a name to them.

Faithe

Faithe

[Caroline]

CLE Reading covers these concepts in grades 5-8, but I wouldn't panic. Any child who has read good books, already has been exposed to these ideas. Now, using Figuratively Speaking, you can put a name to them.

Faithe

Faithe

:iagree: