Using Poetry and Music to Teach Figurative Language

Book designed to help students understand Poetry while using compempoary and classical poetry.

I can't believe it's here--my first "real" post on All Things Upper Elementary! Please watch for my posts every other Tuesday from this point forward! Today I wanted to share with all of you something I have done in my classroom the last few years, and it is something that I think has made some of my fourth graders take that "leap" into a more sophisticated, mature level of understanding of what they read.

While I was away from bloggingland things were still going on in the classroom that I wanted to share, so expect lots of posts as a way of catch up, lol. We recently finished up our unit on Figurative Language and this is one of my favorites!