Simile and Metaphor Lesson Plans & Worksheets Reviewed by Teachers

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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Texas Education Agency

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

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to recognize the literary devices of simile and metaphor and understand their roles in poetry and fiction.

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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Read Works

Read Works: Figurative Language 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this three-lesson 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 metaphor in fiction...

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Texas Education Agency

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

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

Evaluate the role of imagery, metaphor, and simile in literary nonfiction such as speeches and essays.

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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Metaphor

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This is a glossary entry for the term "Metaphor" including a definition and links to simile, personification, hyperbole, anology, and other figures of speech.

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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.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Identifying Figures of Speech [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

A graphic organizer which allows students to document and list the figures of speech they identify in a given piece of literature. These include simile, metaphor, personification, and symbol, and require examples from the 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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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: The Modern Poet: Poetry Terms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This is a poetry terms presentation which defines poetry terms.

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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 young scholars 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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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: 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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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Figurative Language and Sound Devices

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards

[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...

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