{
"week": 24,
"day": "Tuesday",
"topic": "Figurative Language Practice",
"subtitle": "Working with similes and idioms",
"icon": "🎨",
"pages": [
{
"sections": [
{
"type": "note",
"title": "Remember This!",
"content": "A SIMILE compares two things using LIKE or AS. An IDIOM is a saying whose meaning is different from its exact words. Example idiom: 'a piece of cake' means something is very easy!"
},
{
"type": "practice",
"title": "Word Scramble",
"note": "Unscramble the letters to spell this week's words. Hint: they are all comparison words!",
"items": [
{"text": "p y r p s l i e → ______ (hard to hold onto)"},
{"text": "b s n u r t o b → ______ (won't change your mind)"},
{"text": "r e p a m o c → ______ (see how things are alike)"},
{"text": "e r v c l e → ______ (smart at solving problems)"},
{"text": "t y m g i h → ______ (very strong)"},
{"text": "l i m e s i → ______ (a comparison with like or as)"}
]
}
]
},
{
"sections": [
{
"type": "fill_blank",
"title": "Fill in the Blank",
"note": "Choose a word from the word bank. Careful -- three words are extras!",
"wordbank": ["simile", "saying", "clever", "speedy", "gentle", "hungry", "sneaky", "bright"],
"items": [
"'As busy as a bee' is a ____ because it uses the word AS.",
"The ____ race car zoomed past all the others.",
"'The early bird gets the worm' is an old ____.",
"The ____ fox solved the puzzle before anyone else.",
"Please be ____ when you hold the baby bird."
]
},
{
"type": "practice",
"title": "Fix the Spelling",
"note": "One word in each sentence is spelled wrong. Circle it and write it correctly.",
"items": [
{"text": "The hungery bear looked for berries. → ______"},
{"text": "My genteel dog never jumps on people. → ______"},
{"text": "The moon was brite last night. → ______"},
{"text": "That sneeky cat hid under my bed. → ______"},
{"text": "The mule was too stuborn to walk. → ______"}
]
}
]
},
{
"sections": [
{
"type": "practice",
"title": "Grammar Practice: Find the Simile",
"note": "Underline the simile in each sentence. Circle the word LIKE or AS.",
"items": [
{"text": "The baby slept like a log all night long."},
{"text": "My backpack is as heavy as a pile of bricks."},
{"text": "Grandpa's beard is as white as fresh snow."},
{"text": "The leaves danced like tiny ballerinas in the wind."}
]
},
{
"type": "practice",
"title": "Odd One Out",
"note": "Circle the word that does NOT belong in each row. Tell an adult why.",
"items": [
{"text": "speedy quick fast slow"},
{"text": "gentle rough soft kind"},
{"text": "clever smart bright silly"}
]
},
{
"type": "word_journal",
"title": "Word Journal",
"note": "Write your own simile about someone in your family. Draw a picture to go with it.",
"lines": 2
}
]
}
]
}