New York Test Prep Common Core Language Skills Idioms, Adages, Similes, & Metaphors

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 Common Core 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