Our Fox: Figuring Out Figurative Language resource is based on the picture book, Fox by Australian author Margaret Wild. It allows students to demonstrate their understanding of similes and metaphors. The science of reading has proven that teaching semantics concepts, such as inferring the meaning behind figurative language, helps improve students’ reading and writing.

To complete this task, students will read similes and metaphors based on characters, settings and events from the text. Using context clues, they will identify the meaning of the figurative language examples and write their own similes and metaphors.

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