https://padlet.com/cloutian/grade4small This week the teachers would like you to continue your at home reading. While you are reading be on the lookout for figurative language--simile, etc. Write your name, the title of your book and two examples of figurative language that you found while reading. en-us 2017-04-27 14:53:13 UTC 2025-10-25 18:38:57 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Dartstarget.png cloutian https://padlet.com/cloutian/grade4small/wish/169026337 Title:   TOOK by Mary Downing Hahn
Simile: In the van's headlights the trees looked like a stage set lit by spotlights.

]]> 2017-04-29 19:17:03 UTC https://padlet.com/cloutian/grade4small/wish/169026337 https://padlet.com/cloutian/grade4small/wish/169559038 "Buddy flopped onto her belly in the tickling grass and dropped the ball between her paws, her toungue as limp as a dishrag." ]]> 2017-05-02 22:56:45 UTC https://padlet.com/cloutian/grade4small/wish/169559038 https://padlet.com/cloutian/grade4small/wish/169559421 "Buddy's pointy face"]]> 2017-05-02 23:02:00 UTC https://padlet.com/cloutian/grade4small/wish/169559421 https://padlet.com/cloutian/grade4small/wish/169569417  Title: Lost in the Sun
  Author:Lisa Graff 
 Hyperbole: "She missed by a mile."
MRS C---I wonder if this is hyperbole-an exaggeration.
 Thank you for noticing.]]> 2017-05-03 00:53:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cloutian/grade4small/wish/169569417 https://padlet.com/cloutian/grade4small/wish/169806906 Title:The Littlest Bigfoot
Author:Jennifer Weiner
Simile: "Her hands,big as ham steaks"
Metaphor:"Living with the Mane as she called it,was like having a three-year-old on top of her head.

]]> 2017-05-03 22:18:35 UTC https://padlet.com/cloutian/grade4small/wish/169806906 https://padlet.com/cloutian/grade4small/wish/170067950 Zoe K
Warriors: Sign of the Moon
Personification
"Crag and Swoop shoved the two clan cats back into the mouth of the gully"]]> 2017-05-04 22:58:25 UTC https://padlet.com/cloutian/grade4small/wish/170067950 https://padlet.com/cloutian/grade4small/wish/170068673 Warriors Sign of the Moon
Simile
"Thistleclaw threw him off like a dead leaf"

]]> 2017-05-04 23:08:53 UTC https://padlet.com/cloutian/grade4small/wish/170068673 https://padlet.com/cloutian/grade4small/wish/170324836  Title: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
 Author: J.K. Rowling
" Ron changed track at the speed of light"]]> 2017-05-06 19:21:11 UTC https://padlet.com/cloutian/grade4small/wish/170324836