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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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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.
Unit Plan
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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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Right Brained Lesson: Serendipitous Love Metaphors

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Based on its title, student writers predict what Benatar's song means when it says that "Love Is a Battlefield." After discussing Benatar's extended metaphor as a class, students will create an original extended metaphor about love in...
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Other

My Schoolhouse: Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
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.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Simile and Metaphor

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This elementary flipchart explores examples of simile and metaphor as students brainstorm ideas with the class.
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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.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Metaphor & Simile

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps students understand the use of metaphors and similes in written and spoken language. There are several fun examples, activities and whole group feedback using Activotes.
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Quia

Quia: Grammar: Is This Sentence Correct?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This 10 question quiz asks students to select the correct answer to questions about metaphors. Java is required.
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Battleship

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Sink your opponent's ships by answering metaphor questions. Select skill level and reposition your ships before beginning the game.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Stairway to Heaven Examining Metaphor in Popular Music

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Contains plans for two lessons that ask students to make connections between literary texts and popular culture texts like song lyrics. After checking popular culture texts for literary elements, these elements are then examined in...
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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. Young scholars are challenged to identify these figurative elements in literature and then create some themselves.
Online Course
Science Museum, London

Making the Modern World: War, Literature, and Technology

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a content-rich interactive site which guides you through the literature of war. Access the history of war literature to take you to a timeline, study authors' writings about war, learn about metaphorical language, and put into...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Poetic Stickup: Put the Financial Aid in the Bag

For Students 9th - 10th
See performance artist, Carvens Lissaint to use language, metaphor, and imagery to express an emotional plea to make college education more accessible to all. [5:05]
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Other

Shakepeare Study Guide: Much Ado About Nothing: Summary and Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a summary and analysis of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing including a list of characters, a plot summary and analysis, figures of speech, metaphors of fire, Dogberry's Malaporpisms, animal imagery, and study questions and...
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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 learners 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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