Falser Than A Weeping Crocodile And Other Similes

Falser Than a Weeping Crocodile and Other Similes

This companion volume to As One Mad with Wine offers another 9000 comparisons from Gale's Similies Dictionary. Similies from famous writers are arranged by thematic categories. Find out what Dickens said about dullness, what O'Henry said about noises and what Shakespeare said about anything.

Bridges to Reading, 3-6

Now you can use quality children's literature to teach traditional reading skills! Providing a balance between traditional and literature-based instruction, these books include stimulating and instructive lessons based on approximately 150 skills commonly found in basal readers. These lessons utilize a variety of strategies that can be applied to teaching myriad skills-from alphabet and alphabetization to word recognition skills. Each featured book includes a variety of activities and a list of related books. Semantic feature analysis, attribute charts, writing activities, problem-solving, genre analysis, wordplay, and phonetic analysis are just some of the strategies covered. Wonderful tools for enlivening reading instruction, these resources reconcile the need to teach basic skills with the desire to use children's literature.

Flowers of fancy, a collection of similes taken from various authors, by H. Schultes