Test Master Press Texas

TEXAS LANGUAGE ARTS Vocabulary Skills Workbook Idioms, Adages, Similes, & Metaphors Test Master Press Texas

This book has been created to provided targeted practice exercises for the two language skills most requested by teachers and most troublesome for many students. These are understanding similes and metaphors, and recognizing and explaining the meaning of idioms and adages. Key Features
- 101 exercises focused on figurative language and sayings
- includes exercises covering idioms, common phrases, adages, similes, metaphors, and hyperbole
- 10 complete sets of exercises organized into easy, moderate, and advanced
- vocabulary, reading level, and difficulty increase through the sets
- each set includes a variety of tasks that allow students to develop and then apply new skills
- includes a complete answer key

Develops 10+ TEKS Language Arts Skills
- produces a thorough understanding of idioms
- provides practice recognizing the meaning of common phrases
- encourages students to understand and relate to 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
- teaches students to use context to determine meaning
- helps students understand the literal and nonliteral meanings of words
- increases vocabulary and enhances knowledge of word meanings
- develops writing skills including persuasive, descriptive, and narrative writing
- enhances reading comprehension skills

Improves Performance on the STAAR Reading and STAAR Writing Tests
- improves reading comprehension skills
- ensures students perform well on questions about vocabulary, sensory language, similes, and metaphors
- improves performance on written composition tasks