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Curated OER

Simile and Metaphor

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this identifying simile and metaphor worksheet, students read information and examples, finish lines with similes, and write metaphors. Students complete 10 answers.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Metaphors

For Students 4th - 6th
In this metaphor worksheet, students read and determine metaphors. In this multiple choice worksheet, students identify seven metaphors.
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Western Education

Math Poems

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
The logic, rhythm, and beauty of math sometimes get lost amidst numbers and variables. Amplify math's lyricism with a poetry project that uses metaphors and similes to compare mathematical concepts to other images.
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Lesson Plan
Roald Dahl

The Twits - The Wormy Spaghetti

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
What do spiders' legs and an octopus's eyeball have to do with metaphors? The fourth lesson plan in an 11-part unit designed to accompany The Twits by Roald Dahl uses disgusting foods to teach about metaphoric writing.
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PPT
Springfield Public Schools District 186

Form and Structure of Poetry

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
If anyone suffers from metrophobia—the fear of poetry—the PowerPoint on the elements of poetry may help alleviate their worries. The presentation introduces learners to poetic elements, including simile, metaphor, and personification....
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Curated OER

Mighty Metaphors

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore metaphors and then complete a worksheet on which they write metaphors. They may illustrate the metaphors.
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Curated OER

Metaphors in Literature

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders analyze literature and the use of metaphors. In this metaphors lesson, 8th graders view and discuss the examples of metaphors. Students complete the phrases by writing in a metaphor.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Poetry IV--Similes and Metaphors

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners solve and write riddles using similes and metaphors.  In this similes and metaphors lesson plan, students work in groups to solve descriptive riddles for famous landmarks.  Learners are given pictures of landforms and write own...
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Curated OER

Metaphors

For Students 4th - 5th
In this metaphor worksheet, students read statements that contain metaphors, then choose the statement that explains the meaning of each. A reference website if given for additional resources.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Figurative Language: Metaphors and Similes

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders are introduced to the figurative language using metaphors and similies. They identify the similarities and differences between the two and practice developing their own to use in their writing. They illustrate their...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Metaphors, Personifications, Similes, and Hyperboles

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discuss prior knowledge of the terms simile, hyperbole, metaphor, and personification. They then listen to the definitions of each and write a hyperbole, personification, simile, and metaphor to describe a Mr. Potato Head...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fall Similes and Metaphors

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners interpret what a similies and metaphors are. They give examples of similies and metaphors. Pupils write different similies and metaphors using fall or autumn descriptive words. Students base their comparisons on facts, once they...
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Curated OER

Similes and Metaphors

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars use similes and metaphors to enhance their creative writing. In this creative writing worksheet, students learn the definitions of and differences between similes and metaphors. They practice making similes using the list...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Similes, Metaphors, and Personification

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore figurative language, specifically focusing on similes, metaphors and personification. They work on the web to identify poems that demonstrate simile, metaphor, and personification, then analyze how it enhances...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Metaphors

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this metaphors worksheet, students practice writing sentences using metaphors. Students are given fifteen adjectives that describe someone and students use a metaphor to write a sentence about the adjective.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Metaphors

For Teachers 4th - 6th
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, 
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Similes and Metaphors

For Students 7th - 8th
In this similes and metaphors learning exercise, students write similes for seven given sentences and then change them into metaphors.
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Interactive
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Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole

For Students 4th - 8th
For this online interactive figurative language worksheet, students respond to 15 fill in the blank questions identifying each sentence as a simile, metaphor, or hyperbole.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Coming Home:From the Life of Langston Hughes

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders listen to the non-fiction book: COMING HOME: FROM THE LIFE OF LANGSTON HUGHES. They identify examples of metaphors and similies within the book and understand how this figure of speech is used in writing. They then create...
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Curated OER

Lots of Lessons from Aesop

For Teachers 5th
Aesop’s Fables offer young learners an opportunity to study figurative language. After reviewing theme, simile, alliteration, and metaphor, model for your pupils how to identify examples of these devices in the fable. Class members then...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

It's Raining Cats and Dogs! Literary Devices and Figurative Language

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Third and fourth graders study literary devices and figurative language. They view a PowerPoint presentation (which you must create) to review hyperbole, idiom, simile, and metaphor. They read and discuss the book There's A Frog in My...
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PPT
Curated OER

Tall Tales: Larger Than Life Stories

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Review the elements of tall tales with your class. Take a look at their genesis and purpose. Different types of figurative language found in tall tales are included such as hyperbole, simile, and metaphor. Before reading an American tall...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Visual Puns - Paper Mache Sculpture

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Explore the pop art movement and create a sculpture in the pop art style based on a visual pun, or play on words. The scholar's work may use humor, allegory, metaphor, or be in the form of a parody. Visual examples are provided, and some...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Deciphering the Mechanics of Poetry

For Teachers 7th - 9th
After a review of poetic terms, groups are given an object and they create a poem using a simile, a metaphor, internal rhyme, end rhyme, alliteration, and personification. Groups then exchange objects and repeat the process. Consider...

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