Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with this Valentine's Day-themed metaphors maze!

Metaphors are imaginative ways to describe something by comparing that thing to something else. With this worksheet, students will write a metaphor for each pair of given words.

Become as clever as a fox as you learn to identify and interpret similes and metaphors!

If someone loses their glasses, are they as blind as a bee or a bat? This fill-in-the-blank worksheet introduces your child to popular similes.

As quiet as a mouse or as quiet as a cucumber? Kids will learn the definition of a simile, then use pictures as clues to complete the similes.

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

In this exercise, students will use linking verbs to write metaphors with support.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Sense of Metaphors.

This worksheet is a slam dunk for metaphors! Your young writer will learn what makes up a metaphor, and then practice making a few of their own.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Similes with Linking Words.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Sense of Metaphors.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Similes with Linking Words.

This grammar worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of figurative language in context, including similes, metaphors, idioms, and personification.

Give kids a chance to think creatively about metaphors by letting them write their own! Students will stretch their imaginations and figurative language skills as they think of ways to describe their class, bedroom, and more.

Are you as quick as lightning? Learn about similes with this fun activity. Pick a simile and draw a picture to represent it.

After introducing similes, give kids a chance to be creative with this writing activity! Students will have fun comparing all kinds of things of their choosing using the prompts, and you'll love watching them use and grow their figurative language ski

Can you tell the difference between a simile and a metaphor? Students will seek to distinguish between—and determine the meanings of—simple similes and metaphors with this multiple choice activity.

Get students thinking figuratively by having them connect their understanding of metaphors and similes to the books they read in class. Students will seek out a metaphor or simile in their reading, consider the quote's context, then explain what they

Learners will have fun honing their language and grammar skills with this fall-themed figurative language maze!

How is a grapefruit like a moon? They are both round! Students will identify which items are being compared in a metaphor, then describe one way they are alike.

Students hone their ability to spot literary devices with this fun, winter-themed figurative language maze!

In this worksheet, students will read Carl Sandburg's poem "Fog," then analyze the poem for figurative language.

Take an Earth Day-themed adventure through this figurative language maze!

These similes got mixed up! With this simile worksheet, students will choose from a selection of words to complete the scrambled similes.

Let your figurative language skills blossom with this middle-grade springtime metaphor maze! 

This exercise will get your students inferring the meaning of unknown metaphors.

Similes are all around us—sometimes you just need a little context to know how to decipher them! This lighthearted story about a twisted ankle contains two hidden similes. Can your students find them?