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Using Onomatopoeia

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore onomatopoeia. They discuss the definition of onomatopoeia. Students brainstorm words that use onomatopoeia and they create a words work to use as a reference for poetry writing.
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Literature: Poetic Devices Review

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders examine poems by Shel Silverstein and identify literary elements in them. The exercise is part of an examination review about poetic elements. The review concludes with students writing nature poems displaying the devices...
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Through the Looking-Glass Chess: Create Your Own Games!

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders research chess in relation to the metaphors in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass. They read the novel and note references to chess and research the history of chess and how to play the game. In groups, they create...
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"Compression of Emotional Power"--Responding To Unseen Poetry

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders identify the structure, rhythm and style of a selected poem, experience utilizing poetic devices and analyze an annotated poem. They evaluate the themes and inferred meanings to a variety of poems from their textbooks.
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Exploring Color Vocabulary

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore color terms and related meanings and metaphors in cultural and literary contexts. They use the main colors to explore synonymous color terms and related metaphorical meanings of color words. Students recognize the...
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PERSONIFICATOIN

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this personification worksheet, students first read a short description about personification. Students are then asked to underline words that represent a quality of a person. Finally, students look at words such as 'frog' and try...
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Similes and Metaphors

For Students 7th - 8th
In this similes and metaphors learning exercise, students write similes for seven given sentences and then change them into metaphors.
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Literary Terms Word Search Puzzle

For Students 6th - 9th
In this literary terms worksheet, students define and review ten key literary terms and then locate and circle those ten terms within a word search puzzle for mastery.
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English Skills

For Students 5th - 6th
In this English skills review worksheet, learners complete 60 questions pertaining to vowels, word endings, anagrams, parts of speech, proofreading, root words, onomatopoeia and spelling. There is no instruction on the page.
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Ladybug Similes

For Students 5th - 6th
In this simile worksheet, learners review the definition and an example about similes. Students then write five similes about ladybugs, pick out the best one, and then illustrate it.
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Sensory Image Chart/Unforgettable Settings

For Students 6th - 7th
In these sensory image and settings worksheets, learners list a book, author, and passage that contains sensory image for the five different senses. Students also read several passages and answer questions about the settings for each.
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Pound A Poem

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students participate in various poem-related lessons to learn how they can make a difference in the lives of people they don't know. In this poetry lesson, students discover that this pound a poem competition is about raising money for...
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Simile Crossword Puzzle

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this simile crossword puzzle worksheet, students use the 18 clues to identify the correct terms that will solve the crossword puzzle.
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Similes

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this similes worksheet, students discover what similes are as they read a description and then create 11 similes of their own.
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Similes and Metaphors

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars use similes and metaphors to enhance their creative writing. In this creative writing worksheet, students learn the definitions of and differences between similes and metaphors. They practice making similes using the list...
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Fairness Metaphor

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils write a metaphor. In this descriptive writing instructional activity, students define metaphor. Pupils come up with a creative metaphor to describe their feelings about fair practices related to music downloads.
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Literature Book: Rat-a-tat-tat

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Pupils explore choral reading.  In this oral reading instructional activity, students listen to the book Rat-a-tat-tat by Jill Eggleton and participate by reading certain parts chorally and adding sound effects with instruments and noise...
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Poetry IV--Similes and Metaphors

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners solve and write riddles using similes and metaphors.  In this similes and metaphors lesson plan, students work in groups to solve descriptive riddles for famous landmarks.  Learners are given pictures of landforms and write own...
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Poetry: What's on Your Plate (Part 2)

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students write a short paragraph using strong descriptions.  In this using modifiers lesson, students define modifier, adjective, adverb, metaphor, and simile.  Students then write a journal entry in which they write about a favorite...
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Notes- Similes 2

For Students 5th - 10th
For this simile worksheet, students read definitions, paragraphs, and examples that contain similes. Students complete 8 sections to read and explain.
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Making Similes

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this simile worksheet, students read about similes, then use adjectives given in a word bank to create similes and fill in blanks in sentences with adjectives.
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Simile Practice

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this simile instructional activity, students use a word bank of 18 adjectives to write similes. Examples and explanations are given at the top of the page. 
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Metaphors

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this metaphor worksheet, students make a "word card" with the word metaphor for their vocabulary bank, then determine whether statement from The Dragonslayer are similes or metaphors, 
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Metaphors

For Students 4th - 5th
In this metaphor worksheet, students read statements that contain metaphors, then choose the statement that explains the meaning of each. A reference website if given for additional resources.

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