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K12 Reader

Metaphors Compare Things

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
This instructional activity on metaphors is your ticket to better writing! As learners read ten sentences, they underline the metaphor and circle the two objects of comparison.
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K12 Reader

Metaphor and Simile: About You

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Class members will be as confident as prize-winning thoroughbreds after completing a instructional activity on figurative language. Young writers jot down metaphors and similes for three categories: they way they...
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Soft Schools

Rewriting Similes and Metaphors

For Students 4th - 8th
As part of a study of comparison, kids transform similes into metaphors and metaphors into similes.
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Soft Schools

Metaphor and Similes in Literature: A Challenge

For Students 7th - 10th
After identifying the similes and metaphors in a series of lines from poems, individuals then explain what is being compared and the characteristics the two items share.
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Soft Schools

Similes and Metaphors

For Students 2nd - 6th
Do your kids a little more practice identifying similes and metaphors? This worksheet can be used as extra practice, for homework, or as part of a group activity
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Soft Schools

Metaphors: Identifying Comparisons

For Students 2nd - 6th
My mother is a flower. John is a cheetah. Introduce kids to metaphors with a series of sentences that asks them to identify the two things that are being compared.
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Loudoun County Public Schools

Figurative Language Packet

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
A definitive resource for your figurative language unit includes several worksheets and activities to reinforce writing skills. It addresses poetic elements such as simile and metaphor, personification, hyperbole, and idioms, and...
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Curated OER

Minting New Thoughts

For Teachers K - 6th
Consider a new metaphor when discussing positive thinking with your learners by having them "recycle" their negative, poison thoughts and "minting" them into positive ones using these dollar bill printables!
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MENSA Education & Research Foundation

Magical Musical Tour: Using Lyrics to Teach Literary Elements

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Language arts learners don't need a lecture about poetry; they listen to poetry every day on the radio! Apply skills from literary analysis to famous songs and beautiful lyrics with a lesson about literary devices. As...
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E Reading Worksheets

Figurative Language Finder

For Students 5th - 7th
To demonstrate their understanding of figurative language, middle schoolers use a guided reading worksheet to find examples of figurative language in a text, identify the technique being used, and to explain how they were able...
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Ereading Worksheets

Figurative Language for Edgar Allen Poe

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Are your classes weary of dreary worksheets? Are the learners nearly napping? Thrill them, fill them with delight with an interactive worksheet that asks them to identify the figurative language Edgar Allen Poe uses to add horror and...
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Gottlieb

Kennings vs. Stock Epithets – A Quick Review

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
Bone-crusher. Troll-wife. Battle-sweat. Blood-worm. What study of Beowulf would be complete without offering readers of this Old English epic poem an opportunity to craft their own kennings and epithets? Provide individuals with a copy...
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K5 Learning

The Blind Men and the Elephant

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
Sometimes it's necessary to view the whole picture before making a judgment about a small part. Read a short story about five blind men who try to identify an elephant by feeling different parts and coming to their own conclusions....
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Soft Schools

Practice Reading Poetry

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Identify the rhyme scheme in a activity that features "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Readers use the nursery rhyme to reinforce poetic elements in four comprehension questions.

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