You're Toast and Other Metaphors We Adore (Ways to Say It)

My grandson just went back to in-person learning. His teacher is not the best or has enough patience. My grandson has certain special needs that are in place. I cried when he said his special needs teacher would not explain all things to him like metaphor that first few days, just told him that he was making "baby excuses" when he said he didn't know the word on the sheet. The other day when I went online to find books for his age group(he just turned 10)I came across this book. (My grandson also had to catch up in-person on subject matter not covered in remote.)This book is perfect! I can't wait to give it to him and it has a picture of a boy and along with him is his little sister - just as my grandson has - a six year old sister. Parents, pay attention to the attitudes of educators on remote.

Learning idioms isn’t easy for young people.This book has a visual presentation and the written format. I Read this aloud the first time.

Love this book for teaching metaphors!

Great book while teaching figurative language

Cute book that does a good job explaining a few metaphors. Great illustrations and kept my kindergartener's interest. Not as many as I would liked but it was a cute story.

After reading this with my intermediate class, we created our own pictures of metaphors and idioms. It really helped my students understand the difference between a metaphor and a simile (I also used Crazy Like a Fox). Add Love That Dog + Hate That Cat (Sharon Creech) and you'll have your kiddos finding literary devices in their own independent reading.

I use this in my therapy. I’m a Speech Therapist and I work on figurative Language a lot

I use this book with my students who are learning about idioms and metaphors.