This lesson is designed to help young scholars review what they have learned in earlier classes and to begin to engage with similes on a deeper and more abstract level. Students will define similes and identify examples; read and analyze...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students can write a poem that incorporates personification and similes with the help of this template.

Contains plans for four lessons that use photos and depictions of World War II to inspire similes to use in poems. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A instructional activity 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...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A instructional activity 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...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart will help students construct knowledge of similes and how the use of similes makes language more vivid. Beginning pages has plenty opportunities for an inductive lesson plan. There is...

This language arts instructional activity grabs students' attention by incorporating a popular musician. The lyrics to "Over You" include vivid language that makes identifying figures of speech intriguing. The students will identify...