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3rd - 7th Grade Simile Resources

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with this worksheet featuring summer-themed similes!

Figurative Language Maze: Summer Similes

Help students learn and remember key types of figurative language with this convenient handout!

Figurative Language Handout

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

Figurative Language Maze: Fall Similes

Children work with two forms of figurative language in this grammar worksheet.

Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #1

Students will learn to identify and interpret similes, metaphors, and personification in writing.

Figurative Language Practice

Once students get underway with this Education.com exercise, learning about similes is easy as pie.


Similes 1

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.

Similes: Easy as Pie

This worksheet will help your child understand what similes are, and she&#39;ll even get to use her imagination to write some of her own!

Scrambled Similes

Your students will be all smiles when learning how to compare objects with this similes exercise.


Similes 2

Children are introduced to Tennyson the Turtle, a reptile who likes to use metaphors and similes, in this appealing worksheet!

Metaphors and Similes

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Halloween-themed similes!

Figurative Language Maze: Halloween Similes

Descriptive language and metaphoric phrases take the spotlight in this workbook. Kids use new vocabulary and common phrases to tackle writing skills.

Figurative Language

Introduce readers to the poem &ldquo;We Wear the Mask&rdquo; by Paul Laurence Dunbar with this poetry analysis worksheet!<br />
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Analyzing Poetry: “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar

Students will be as confident in writing as a Pulitzer Prize winner after completing this final exercise in the similes series.


Similes 3

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

Figurative Language Maze: Winter Similes

Learners discover the magic of figurative language in this reading and writing exercise.

Review: Metaphors and Similes

Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #2

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.

Similes: Clear as Crystal

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.

All About Metaphors

This year, third graders will be taking their vocabulary to new heights and exploring such concepts as metaphor, simile, hyperbole, and personification. This guided lesson in vocabulary and figurative language offers clear and practical definitions of new words and expressions, along with plenty of practice opportunities. Understanding vocabulary and figurative language deepens reading comprehension skills and enriches the writing process.

Word Meaning 1

Your students will infer the meaning of unknown figurative language examples by using context clues.

Making Sense of Figurative Language 1

Children practice identifying and interpreting one type of figurative language, similes, in nine sample sentences.

Making Sense of Figurative Language 2

Ideal for fourth and fifth graders, this worksheet includes figurative language examples and definitions on the first page, and a second full page of questions and tasks that can be used to check for understanding.

Fall Figurative Language Task Cards

EL students will read similes and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

Reading & Understanding Similes

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

Examples of Similes

As students begin to read more sophisticated texts, understanding how authors use figurative language becomes critical. In this unit, students will revisit some of the figurative language they learned in fourth grade and also study some new ones too, including onomatopoeia, hyperbole, puns and oxymorons. Analyzing how figurative language is used in texts will help readers apply what they have learned.

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

Figurative Language Maze: Earth Day Similes

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

Writing Similes with Linking Words

Kids categorize similes by emotions, actions, and appearances.

Muggo's Brain: Sorting Similes

Words are the wondrous building blocks in language. This unit increases students’ word knowledge by introducing more challenging vocabulary and exploring how words are related. Learners will also discover some of the ways words are constructed using derivational root words, prefixes, suffixes, and compound words. Students will get to explore and create fun literary devices such as similes, idioms and metaphors.

Word Meaning 2

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