Students explore Earth Day by creating an arts and crafts project. For this nature appreciation lesson, students utilize nature related vocabulary terms on magnets and put them in different orders to create interesting poetry. Students...

Young scholars use different types and lengths of sentences. They write with an insight of the stylistic aspects of composition. Students use precise language including adjectives, adverbs, action verbs and specific details that convey...

Students choose two poems they like and share them with the class. Then they write their own poems using various forms.

Third graders log on to the net, type in the address for Scholastic and browse the subjects for the week. They select one area of interest and generate five interesting facts about the article.

Identify the rhyme scheme in a worksheet that features "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Readers use the nursery rhyme to reinforce poetic elements in four comprehension questions.

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...

[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...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This elementary flipchart explores examples of simile and metaphor as students brainstorm ideas with the class.

An eighteen-part learning module with links to videos, charts, and images to teach similes and metaphors.

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this three-instructional activity unit, students use the book If You Hopped Like a Frog by David Schwartz and some additional short texts to learn to identify and understand the use of simile and...

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.

Explains what figurative language is and how to determine its meaning. Also provides a practice exercise.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces metaphors and similes. It also provides practice and a writing assessment.

Students 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.

[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...

A twelve-part learning module with links to videos, images, websites, and a quiz on metaphors and similes.

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...

Definitions and examples of simile, metaphor, and hyperbole followed by 15 sentences asking students to identify whether the sentence contains a simile, metaphor, or hyperbole.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is intended for students in grades 4 and 5 who have been introduced to the terms simile, metaphor, hyperbole, alliteration, and onomatopoeia. The activities in the flipchart give...

This printable worksheet tutorial tests your knowledge of writing snow similes.

A nine-part learning module with links to images and a video about figurative language including simile, onomatopoeia, and metaphor.

By looking to examples of popular poetry in a variety of forms, students learn to analyze, appreciate, and synthesize poetry in the classroom. "Writing Poetry Like Pros" provides several links to poetry texts and suggestions for creating...

Twenty sentence analogies for students to complete by choosing the word that correctly shows the relationships. Correct answers are given for any missed, and the score is tallied throughout the exercise.

Along with definitions for four types of figurative language, this learning module provides numerous examples. Similes, metaphors, personification, and hyperbole are the types of figurative language featured.