Use songs to help your students learn how literary elements are used to express meaning and evoke emotions. Songs like "Row, Row Your Boat" or "Mares Eat Oats" can be used to teach your students about rhythm as well as rhyme.
Develop strategies that allow students to actively participate in using different types of literary elements, including allegory, simile and metaphor, through active learning lessons. For instance, a puppet show or classroom play is one way to get kindergartners excited about learning. Give plenty of examples for each term.
Use games to teach about literary elements. For example, you can use cards as visual clues to what literary device is being used in a story, such as foreshadowing or metaphor.
Have the children read some stories and then try to find and identify literary elements in the stories.