figurative language IEP goal
LanguageGrades 3–6
Goal
[Student] will interpret common idioms, similes, and metaphors in context with 80% accuracy across 3 consecutive sessions.
How it is measured
- Criterion
- 80% percent accuracy
- Over
- 3 consecutive sessions
- Area
- Language
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- Adverbial Clause PracticeFlashcardsLanguageGrades 3–510 min
- Analogies for Secondary StudentsMatchingLanguageGrades 6–1215 min
- Antonym Pairs MatchingMatchingLanguageGrades 1–48 min
- Article Use PracticeFlashcardsLanguageGrades K–38 min
- Barrier Game: Draw What I DescribeDrawingLanguageGrades 2–515 min
- Basic Concepts — Big Small Hot ColdFlashcardsLanguageGrades K–18 min
- Basic Concepts: Same, Different, Opposite, OrderGameLanguageGrades K–210 min
- Because ClausesFlashcardsLanguageGrades 2–510 min
- Categories and Function: What Belongs and What It DoesGameLanguageGrades 1–312 min
- Category Sort — 4 GroupsSortingLanguageGrades 1–310 min
- Category Sort — Animals vs. FoodSortingLanguageGrades K–28 min
- Cause and Effect SortMatchingLanguageGrades 2–512 min
- Cause-Effect Story ElaborationFlashcardsLanguageGrades 2–512 min
- Character Description PracticeFlashcardsLanguageGrades K–38 min
- Cleft Sentence PracticeFlashcardsLanguageGrades 5–812 min
- Comparative -er and moreFlashcardsLanguageGrades 2–510 min
- Comparatives and SuperlativesFlashcardsLanguageGrades 1–48 min
- Compound Sentence BuildingFlashcardsLanguageGrades 2–510 min
- Compound Sentences — Joining with And/But/SoFill-inLanguageGrades 2–512 min
- Compound Words PracticeFlashcardsLanguageGrades 1–48 min
- Conjunction ExpansionFlashcardsLanguageGrades 1–48 min
- Contractions PracticeFlashcardsLanguageGrades 1–48 min
- Derivational Morphology SortingFlashcardsLanguageGrades 5–812 min
- Describe It: Attribute VocabularyDrawingLanguageGrades 1–312 min
- Describing Objects — 3 AttributesFlashcardsLanguageGrades K–310 min
- Dialogue InterpretationFlashcardsLanguageGrades 2–510 min
- Draw Then Tell: Personal NarrativeDrawingLanguageGrades 4–620 min
- Draw the Process: Explaining How Something WorksDrawingLanguageGrades 6–820 min
- Draw the Steps: Everyday RoutinesDrawingLanguageGrades K–212 min
- Episodic Structure ScaffoldingFlashcardsLanguageGrades 3–615 min
- Expository Text Compare-ContrastFlashcardsLanguageGrades 3–612 min
- Expository Text DescriptiveFlashcardsLanguageGrades 3–612 min
- Expository Text Problem-SolutionFlashcardsLanguageGrades 5–815 min
- Expository Text Structure: Middle SchoolFlashcardsLanguageGrades 6–815 min
- Figurative Language in Lyrics and MediaFlashcardsLanguageGrades 9–1215 min
- Figurative Language: Metaphor, Simile, Hyperbole, PersonificationGameLanguageGrades 7–1215 min
- Following 1-Step DirectionsGameLanguageGrades K–28 min
- Following 2-Step DirectionsGameLanguageGrades 1–38 min
- Following 3-Step DirectionsGameLanguageGrades 2–510 min
- Following Multi-Step Assignment DirectionsFlashcardsLanguageGrades 6–1215 min
- Following Multi-Step Classroom Directions: Grades 3-5GameLanguageGrades 3–512 min
- Following One- and Two-Step Directions: Choose the AnswerGameLanguageGrades K–210 min
- Following Written Assignment Directions: SecondaryGameLanguageGrades 6–915 min
- Idioms FlashcardsFlashcardsLanguageGrades 3–610 min
- Idioms Teens Actually HearFlashcardsLanguageGrades 6–1215 min
- Idioms Teens Hear: Choose the MeaningGameLanguageGrades 6–1212 min
- Idioms: Elementary SetGameLanguageGrades 3–512 min
- If/Then Conditional SentencesFlashcardsLanguageGrades 3–510 min
- Inference Making from StoriesFlashcardsLanguageGrades 2–512 min
- Inference from Short Stories: Grades 3-5GameLanguageGrades 3–515 min
- Inference from Text MessagesFlashcardsLanguageGrades 6–1215 min
- Inferencing — What Happens Next?FlashcardsLanguageGrades 2–512 min
- Interview Questions and AnswersFlashcardsLanguageGrades 9–1220 min
- Irregular Past TenseFlashcardsLanguageGrades 1–410 min
- Irregular Past Tense FlashcardsFlashcardsLanguageGrades 1–48 min
- Irregular PluralsFlashcardsLanguageGrades 1–410 min
- Language Barrier Game: Describe to BuildFlashcardsLanguageGrades 2–720 min
- Language Board GameGameLanguageGrades 1–520 min
- Main Idea and DetailsFlashcardsLanguageGrades 3–612 min
- Main Idea and Details ExtractionFlashcardsLanguageGrades 3–610 min
- Making Inferences from PicturesFlashcardsLanguageGrades 2–510 min
- Morpheme SegmentationFlashcardsLanguageGrades 4–812 min
- Morphology — Adding -ing and -edSortingLanguageGrades 1–38 min
- Multiple Meaning WordsSortingLanguageGrades 2–510 min
- Multiple Meanings in Academic ContextFlashcardsLanguageGrades 6–1215 min
- Multiple-Meaning Words: Grades 3-5GameLanguageGrades 3–512 min
- Narrative Elaboration with AdjectivesFlashcardsLanguageGrades K–38 min
- Narrative Macrostructure: Build the Whole StoryFlashcardsLanguageGrades 2–820 min
- Narrative Retell — Short StoryStoryLanguageGrades 1–415 min
- Negative Sentence ConstructionFlashcardsLanguageGrades K–38 min
- Note-Taking from a LecturePromptsLanguageGrades 9–1220 min
- Passive Voice TransformationFlashcardsLanguageGrades 4–712 min
- Personal Narrative GenerationFlashcardsLanguageGrades 1–412 min
- Personal Narrative: Tell Me What HappenedFlashcardsLanguageGrades 2–815 min
- Perspective-Taking NarrativeFlashcardsLanguageGrades 4–715 min
- Perspective-Taking in Peer ConflictFlashcardsLanguageGrades 6–1215 min
- Persuasive Language and ArgumentFlashcardsLanguageGrades 9–1220 min
- Picture Sequence NarrationFlashcardsLanguageGrades K–310 min
- Plural Nouns — Regular and IrregularFlashcardsLanguageGrades K–38 min
- Possessive Apostrophe -sFlashcardsLanguageGrades 1–48 min
- Possessives — Whose Is It?MatchingLanguageGrades K–38 min
- Prefix pre- BeforeFlashcardsLanguageGrades 3–610 min
- Prefix re- RepetitionFlashcardsLanguageGrades 1–48 min
- Prefix un- NegationFlashcardsLanguageGrades 1–48 min
- Preposition Cards — In On UnderFlashcardsLanguageGrades K–28 min
- Prepositional Phrase PracticeFlashcardsLanguageGrades K–38 min
- Present Progressive -ingFlashcardsLanguageGrades K–38 min
- Problem-Solution NarrativeFlashcardsLanguageGrades 2–512 min
- Pronoun Sort — He She TheySortingLanguageGrades K–38 min
- Question Tag ProductionFlashcardsLanguageGrades 5–812 min
- Reading a Job PostingGameLanguageGrades 10–1220 min
- Regular Past Tense -edFlashcardsLanguageGrades K–38 min
- Regular Plural -sFlashcardsLanguageGrades K–28 min
- Relative Clause ConstructionFlashcardsLanguageGrades 4–712 min
- Requesting Accommodations After High SchoolPromptsLanguageGrades 11–1220 min
- Retell and Draw: First, Next, LastDrawingLanguageGrades K–215 min
- Sarcasm and Speaker IntentGamePragmaticsGrades 8–1215 min
- Sarcasm and Tone of VoiceFlashcardsLanguageGrades 9–1215 min
- Self-Advocacy: Explaining Your AccommodationsPromptsLanguageGrades 9–1220 min
- Sentence Combining DrillFlashcardsLanguageGrades 4–712 min
- Sentence Completion — Fill in the BlankFill-inLanguageGrades 1–410 min
- Sentence Expansion PracticeFlashcardsLanguageGrades 2–510 min
- Sentence Reduction PracticeFlashcardsLanguageGrades 3–510 min
- Simple SVO SentencesFlashcardsLanguageGrades K–38 min
- Six-Frame Stories: Narrate the SequenceFlashcardsLanguageGrades 1–615 min
- Social Scenario CardsFlashcardsLanguageGrades 1–512 min
- Story Generation from PromptFlashcardsLanguageGrades 4–815 min
- Story Grammar ElementsFlashcardsLanguageGrades 2–512 min
- Story Grammar Map: Character, Setting, Problem, SolutionDrawingLanguageGrades 3–620 min
- Story Grammar MappingFlashcardsLanguageGrades K–310 min
- Story Prediction PracticeFlashcardsLanguageGrades K–38 min
- Story Retell: Tell It Back in OrderFlashcardsLanguageGrades 1–615 min
- Story Retelling — Familiar TaleFlashcardsLanguageGrades K–310 min
- Story Sequencing — 4 StepsSortingLanguageGrades 1–412 min
- Story Sequencing — 6 StepsSortingLanguageGrades 2–515 min
- Story SummarizationFlashcardsLanguageGrades 2–510 min
- Subject-Verb Agreement DrillFlashcardsLanguageGrades 1–48 min
- Suffix -ful Full ofFlashcardsLanguageGrades 1–48 min
- Suffix -less WithoutFlashcardsLanguageGrades 2–510 min
- Suffix -ly Adverb FormationFlashcardsLanguageGrades 1–48 min
- Suffix -tion NominalizationFlashcardsLanguageGrades 3–610 min
- Superlative -est and mostFlashcardsLanguageGrades 2–510 min
- Synonym Pairs MatchingMatchingLanguageGrades 2–510 min
- Third Person Singular -sFlashcardsLanguageGrades K–38 min
- Tier 2 Vocabulary FlashcardsFlashcardsLanguageGrades 3–610 min
- Verb Tense Sort — Past Present FutureSortingLanguageGrades 1–410 min
- Visualize the Idiom: Literal Picture, Real MeaningDrawingLanguageGrades 6–1215 min
- Vocabulary in Context: Grades 3-5GameLanguageGrades 3–512 min
- WH Questions — Where and WhenFlashcardsLanguageGrades K–38 min
- WH Questions — Who and WhatFlashcardsLanguageGrades K–38 min
- Wh- Questions About Articulation PicturesFlashcardsArticulationGrades 1–410 min
- Wh- Questions from Short SentencesGameLanguageGrades K–210 min
- Wh-Question FormationFlashcardsLanguageGrades K–38 min
- When/While Temporal ClausesFlashcardsLanguageGrades 2–510 min
- Why and How QuestionsFlashcardsLanguageGrades 1–410 min
- Wordless Book NarrationFlashcardsLanguageGrades 3–715 min
- Workplace Communication ScenariosFlashcardsLanguageGrades 9–1220 min
- Workplace Comprehension: Policies, Schedules and PayGameLanguageGrades 9–1220 min
- Yes/No Question PracticeFlashcardsLanguageGrades 1–38 min
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