Figurative Language and Literary Devices Lab

Figurative Language and Literary Devices Lab is a virtual reading and writing lab for grades 3–12. Students sort literal and figurative sentences, tag devices in context, and work out what idioms and figurative phrases really mean. In the younger versions they build similes and metaphors from word tiles, and every version asks how a device shapes meaning or tone. The upper versions draw on public-domain poems and prose, and every version ends in a printable lab report.

Skills: Similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, idioms, onomatopoeia, connotation, irony, extended metaphor, analyzing a device's effect on meaning and tone.

Inside: 5 stations, each with a prediction, a hands-on activity, a log or data table that fills in as students work and a check question. Students finish with a printable lab report (print or save as PDF). The Teacher Notes include the standards, a full answer key and a reset button for shared devices.

Grade versions included:

• Grades 3–5: Literal vs. figurative, five basic devices, idioms, building similes and metaphors and an original poem
• Grades 6–8: Eight devices including allusion and oxymoron, connotation, interpreting phrases and device effects
• Grades 9–12: Metonymy, paradox, irony types, Dickinson's extended metaphor and public-domain passages from Shakespeare and others

Standards:

Common Core: RL.4 · RI.4 · L.5

OAS: Standard 3: Critical Reading and Writing; Standard 4: Vocabulary

What you get: 3 HTML lab files, one for each grade band that run in any browser (Chromebooks, laptops, iPads) plus a one-page Quick Start PDF. No logins, no installs, works offline. About 45–50 minutes per lab.

Single-teacher license. Virtual labs are sold separately and are not part of the All-Access licenses.