IDENTIFY and ANALYZE Relay Race

College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Reading

4. Interpret words and phrases as
they are used in a text,
including determining
technical, connotative, and
figurative meanings, and
analyze how specific word
choices shape meaning or
tone.

Materials:
Small Dry Erase Boards and Markers for each group of 4 students
(iPads or good, old fashioned paper can work also)

Set Up:
On the board or projector, write a list of terms, which students should
identify.
Example:
1. Simile
2. Personification
3. Indirect Characterization
4. Imagery
5. Aha Moment

Directions for Students:
1. Starting with number one, look in the text to find and example of
the listed term.
2. Once you have found an example, bring your book to the teacher
and show her the evidence from the text. Be prepared to explain
your answer.
3. If you are correct, move on to the next term. If you are incorrect,
use the feedback given by the teacher in order to revise your
answer.
4. The first team to complete the list should split up and join other
group and offer support.

Directions for Teachers:
Be sure that students can not only explain why a passage can be
identified as say, a simile, but also what is being compared by use of the
simile. It is important for student to recognize these terms, but more
Note on range and content
of student reading
To become college and career ready, students must
grapple with works of exceptional craft and thought
whose range extends across genres, cultures, and
centuries. Such works offer profound insights into
the human condition and serve as models for
students own thinking and writing. Along with
high-quality contemporary works, these texts
should be chosen from among seminal U.S.
documents, the classics of American literature, and
the timeless dramas of Shakespeare. Through wide
and deep reading of literature and literary
nonfiction of steadily increasing sophistication,
students gain a reservoir of literary and cultural
knowledge, references, and images; the ability to
evaluate intricate arguments; and the capacity to
surmount the challenges posed by complex texts.
important that they can analyze how they enhance the reading or what
they provide for the reader.
You can use this game as in informal assessment and also as a review
before a quiz.
Later in the school year, I tell students that some of their discoveries
may show up on future quizzes.