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Teach Figurative Language With Flocabulary [jwplayer file=https://s3.amazonaws.com/flocabulary/media-jrev/figurative-language-media.mp4 image=http://flocabulary.s3.amazonaws.com/images-jrev/figurative-language-image.jpg] Check out the lyrics and more.Listen to Flocabulary’s new, free Figurative Language song. You’ll learn all about alliteration, as well as metaphors, simile and more. Wordplay Wednesday is going back to school. Teach figurative language? Literary terms? Rhetorical devices? This school year, we'll highlight one term per week, with examples from hip-hop, literature, history and general skilled linguists from all fields. You can use these examples in all grades, and have students create their own examples. Share them in the comments for all to see. We'll add our favorites to this post.…

You're just back to school and summer already seems a million miles away. But you can feel the warm summer breeze once more with Flocab's Week in Rap Summer Recap! Congress debated debt, Harry Potter cast his last spell, Republicans kicked off their race for the presidential nomination, British tabloids exploded and more. And this week, we're making it free to the world--spread the word! Watch the Week in Rap Summer Recap now!

Many teachers can remember 9/11. For an adult, this event can rest squarely in history, but also close enough that memories can spring back. Many of our students were not alive in 2001, and if they were, they might be too young to remember where they were when they heard the news. As Americans collectively deal with the strangeness and sadness of 9/11, commemorating the day poses an even stranger disconnect between students and teachers. Seniors in high school were only 1 or 2 years old on the day of the attacks. Middle and elementary school students will likely have no recollection. So in…

If there were ever a day to ask yourself, "Why oh why did I not study Filipino?" today would be it. We were wowed by this clip of the Philippine Educational Theater Association's new Shakespeare rap musical, "William"--and we didn't understand a word of it. The goal of the musical is to make Shakespeare accessible to young people by putting the Bard to a hip-hop beat. Sound familiar? As one young actress said in the clip, the group wants to promote "Shakespeare, not Shakes-fear." The group's reasons for creating "William" were the same reasons we created Shakespeare is Hip-Hop. Teachers…