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

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

In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying metaphors as they color in the logs that contain them.

This worksheet is a beast! That's a metaphor, and your child will be writing their own metaphors in no time, then they can use them in a poem.

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.

Young writers will work with animal metaphors as they plan and craft a poem about someone they know.

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.

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

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

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

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

Practice identifying metaphors with this fun, winter-themed figurative language maze!

Practice identifying metaphors with this fun, summer-themed figurative language maze!

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

Use this activity to help students find and decipher metaphors in the context of short passages. Students will read the passages, record what is being compared in each, and then seek to explain the metaphors' meanings in their own words.

Brush up on your figurative language skills this fall season with this engaging metaphors maze!

Celebrate our planet with this Earth Day-themed metaphors maze!

Students will read metaphors and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Introduce readers to the poem “I like to see it lap the Miles” by beloved American poet Emily Dickinson.