Crash, Bang, Boom: Exploring Literary Devices Through Children's Literature

Make learning about literary devices exciting! This resource explores 11 reading skills and literary devices through familiar stories told by 55 of the most popular children's books. Each skill or device is introduced, explained, and reinforced with five related picture books. Book includes: simple activities that help develop the skill, discussion prompts that require minimal materials or preparation time, and multiple intelligences addressed in the lesson. Subjects are onomatopoeia, alliteration, prediction, characterization, cause and effect, setting, simile, word study, inference and drawing conclusions, point of view and main idea. Reproducible.