Figurative language in songs

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Free Figurative Language in Song Lesson Idea

Teach Figurative Language using popular song lyrics! This is a perfect guide to show you how to select the right songs for your middle school students!

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Song lyrics are perfect for teaching figurative language! To engage your students, you need to know what they like. What books do they like to read? What movies do they like to see? What do they do in their free time? What kind of music do they like? Having a questionnaire at the beginning of the school year is a great way to find out more about them. I like to have them create a collage mobile with their answers (more on that in another post). But this allows me to gauge what their…

Students love music, so using it for teaching them important language and grammar concepts is a great way to get them engaged! There are so many activities you can do using a single song – from grammar and mechanics to song lyric interpretation and discussion of theme and figurative language – the possibilities are endless! In this post, you will find so many great ideas you can use for bell ringers or deeper analysis, and even some FREEBIES! Perfect for middle school and above or Adult ESL.

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Learning figurative language can prove to be difficult with upper elementary students until they discover that it is in poems and songs! Students love listening to music and figurative language with songs, is great with resources like Flocabulary or popular songs. Using the popular children’s poetry book, Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein, you can easily teach alliteration, simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, idiom, hyperbole, and personification.