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Quia

Quia: Bud, Not Buddy: Similies and Metaphors

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
These games use the similes and metaphors from the novel Bud, Not Buddy. There are three games: Flashcards, Matching, and Concentration. Flashcards has half of the simile/metaphor on each side of the card; Matching has students match the...
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TES Global

Blendspace: Similes and Metaphors

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
An eighteen-part learning module with links to videos, charts, and images to teach similes and metaphors.
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Read Works

Read Works: 4th Grade Lesson: Similes and Metaphors

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the book Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes edited by David Roessel and Arnold Rampersad to learn to identify and understand the use of simile and metaphor in...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Simile and Metaphor (English Iii Reading)

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
You will be able to identify the similes and metaphors in a text and evaluate their importance to the meaning of the text. W.11-12.2d Lang/Fig/Voc
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TES Global

Blendspace: Similes & Metaphors by Mrs. Wade

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
A six-part learning module with links to videos and websites about similes and metaphors.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Grammar Basics: Metaphors

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on metaphors using a PowerPoint presentation which offers definitions, examples, and various types of metaphors, as well as, similes for comparison. It provides two YouTube videos: the first includes popular songs...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Descriptive Writing: Similes, Metaphors, Cliches, Hyperbole

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on figurative language used in descriptive writing including similes, metaphors, cliches, hyperbole. It offers multiple links to websites pertaining to figurative language in descriptive and creative writing; an...
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abcteach

Abcteach: Similes [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
This printable worksheet tutorial tests your knowledge of writing snow similes.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Grammar Basics: Metaphors

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn about similes and metaphors through this multimedia presentation. First view a slide show describing different types of metaphors as well as a simile. Then watch a video [3:13] showing similes and metaphors used in popular songs. A...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Imagery: Simile and Metaphor (English I Reading)

For Students 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Identify the similes and metaphors in a text and evaluate their importance to the meaning of the text. RL.9-10.5 text structure effects
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TES Global

Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Sonnet 130 Year 7

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson plan for Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130" asks students to mark the rhyme scheme and highlight similes and metaphors, to respond to a modern letter with a message similar to the sonnet, and to...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Imagery, Metaphor, and Simile (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on understanding imagery, metaphors, and similes.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Simile and Metaphor

For Students 7th - 9th
You will learn how to explain the effect of similes and extended metaphors in literary text.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Art of the Metaphor

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
How do metaphors help us better understand the world? What makes a good metaphor? Explore these questions in this video with writers like Langston Hughes and Carl Sandburg, who have mastered the art of bringing a scene or emotion to...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: An Ocean Unit Exploring Simile and Metaphor

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Contains plans for four lessons that teach learners about similes and metaphors using ocean themed resources. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
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McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Understand Figurative Language

For Students 5th Standards
Explains what similes and metaphors are and how they are alike and different. Provides examples and practice sheets for each.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Figurative Language

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This lesson used a slideshow presentation to explain the difference between similes and metaphors. Students are challenged to identify these figurative elements in literature and then create some themselves.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Literary Text: Imagery, Metaphor, and Simile

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Writers use sensory imagery ("smelled the salty air"), similes ("like a strong man playing tug-of-war"), and metaphors ("the waves roaring in my ears") to capture the reader's imagination. In this lesson, you will learn how to identify...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Simile and Metaphor

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explain the effect of similes and extended metaphors in literary text.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Metaphors and Similes

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces metaphors and similes. It also provides practice and a writing assessment.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: How to Make Poetry

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
Learners learn how to write poetry through ten Writing Workshop mini-lessons. Students complete the graphic organizers provided while learning to notice details, write similes and metaphors, and create patterns in their writing.
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Read Works

Read Works: 3rd Grade Lesson: Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use two provided poems to learn to identify and understand the use of similes and metaphors in poetry. Lesson includes direct teaching, guided practice, and independent...
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TES Global

Blendspace: Metaphors and Similes

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A twelve-part learning module with links to videos, images, websites, and a quiz on metaphors and similes.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Figurative Language Awards Ceremony

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for five to seven lessons that teach about figurative language like similes, metaphors, and personification by asking students to write award acceptance speeches that incorporate them. In addition to objectives and...

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