Learners will read then analyze the story "Goblin Market" then discuss themes of sex and lost virginity. There are 5 questions and a series related links to help them take a critical look at an interesting children's story. This story...

In this poetry analysis learning exercise, learners read the poem "Fish Swimming," and discuss the metaphors in the poem. Students complete eight activities based on the poem, including rewriting the subject of the poem and watching two...

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, 

In this similes and metaphors worksheet, learners write similes for seven given sentences and then change them into metaphors.

In this poetry vocabulary matching worksheet, students match the 21 words with their definitions. They match words that describe types of poetry and figurative language. The solution page does not work

This is a basic reading comprehension practice learning exercise. Learners read 3 passages: folktale, Richard Cory, and an informational text about the Roosevelts. They then answer multiple choice questions that test reading...

In this poetry worksheet, students complete multiple choice questions on different aspects of poetry. Students complete 40 questions total.

In this identifying types of figurative language worksheet, students read sentences and phrases, determine if they are similes, metaphors, hyperboles, personifications, or a combination, identify the type/s and write an explanation of...

In this poem activity, students read the poem Hope by Emily Dickinson and answer multiple choice questions and complete a word search. Students complete 2 activities.

In this Literature instructional activity, learners identify and locate vocabulary terms related to poetry. There are 27 words located in the word search.

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...

Enrich a unit on The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros with a selection of related activities. The packet contains nine activities that go from pre-reading through wrapping up the novel. Young readers work on studying...

Your class can identify idioms, metaphosr, similes, hyperboles or personification by reading poetry and interpret meaning.

In this literary techniques activity, students complete a 12 question multiple choice question test. Included are questions about poetry conventions such as repetition, similes, rhyming patterns, alliteration and metaphors.

In this poetic devices worksheet, middle schoolers identify devices being used as alliteration, rhyme, onomatopoeia, rhyme, idiom, simile, metaphor, hyperbole or personification and explain their choice.

In this reading comprehension learning exercise, students respond to 5 short answer and essay questions based on the poem "Daddy," by Sylvia Plath.

In this literary analysis worksheet, students read the poem "Ode to the West Wind," by Percy Bysshe Shelley and then respond to 5 short answer discussion questions about the significance of wind in the poem and the symbolism of...

In this poetry comprehension instructional activity, students read a poem called "I Build Walls" and think about the symbolism. Students answer 5 interpretation questions about the poem.

How do you assess what your pupils have learned over the course of the year? Find out how competent they are at reading and analyzing age-level literature with the ideas presented here. Included in this resource are two suggested...

For this reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 4 short answer and essay questions based on the "Batter My Heart," by John Donne.  

In this figurative language worksheet, students read and study examples of simile and metaphor. There are 20 questions to be used with Smartboard and 10 questions in which students identify similes or metaphors.

In this figurative language worksheet, students identify figurative language in the sentences and explain their answers. Students complete 10 problems.

In this reading comprehension worksheet, students write sentences with forty five given words. They think about what each conveys and when it could be used.

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