Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Skin Like Milk, Hair of Silk


Skin Like Milk, Hair of Silk: What Are Similes and Metaphors? 
by Brian P. Cleary , Brian Gable (Illustrator) 
Lerner Publishing, 2009

Summary:  A rhyming book that uses humor to show the difference between similes and metaphors.  Full of examples, the pictures help the reader to imagine comparison made by the figurative language. 

Lesson:  The 5th graders were doing a creative writing assignment in class.  After using this book to understand the writing technique, I grouped students with poetry books and asked them to find more examples. 

Level:  2nd-6th

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