Metaphors in Context

Simile or Metaphor

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.

2nd grade

Reading & Writing

Worksheet

Similes and Metaphors: Can You Tell the Difference?

Worksheet

Similes and Metaphors: Can You Tell the Difference?

Can you tell the difference between a simile and a metaphor? Help your star writer sort out her figurative language with a fun activity.

5th grade

Reading & Writing

Worksheet

Similes: Easy as Pie

Worksheet

Similes: Easy as Pie

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.

3rd grade

Reading & Writing

Worksheet

"The Boy Who Cried Wolf" Story Map

Worksheet

"The Boy Who Cried Wolf" Story Map

Give your second graders some practice building their reading comprehension skills with the timeless story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Students will read this classic fable and then answer questions about setting, characters, genre, and cause and effect.

2nd grade

Reading & Writing

Worksheet

Main Idea & Details: Icebergs

Worksheet

Main Idea & Details: Icebergs

Students will identify the main idea and supporting details in a short nonfiction text.

5th grade

Reading & Writing

Worksheet

Learning About Maps!

Worksheet

Learning About Maps!

Use this fun and interesting worksheets about maps to help your students use sentence level context clues, examples, and logic to decode text and become more fluent in reading informational text.

2nd grade

Reading & Writing

Worksheet

Animal Metaphors

Worksheet

Animal Metaphors

That's a metaphor, and your child will be writing his own metaphors in no time, then he can use them in a poem.

3rd grade

Reading & Writing

Worksheet

Making Metaphors

Worksheet

Making Metaphors

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.

2nd grade

Reading & Writing

Worksheet

Metaphor and Simile Search

Worksheet

Metaphor and Simile Search

Students will seek out a metaphor or simile in their reading, consider the quote's context, then explain what they thin

2nd grade

Reading & Writing

Worksheet

Write Your Own Metaphors

Worksheet

Write Your Own Metaphors

Give kids a chance to think creatively about metaphors by letting them write their own!

2nd grade

Reading & Writing

Worksheet

Irregular Verbs in Context

Lesson plan

Irregular Verbs in Context

Use this lesson to teach your scholars how to form the past tense of irregular verbs and correctly use them in context.

2nd grade

Reading & Writing

Lesson plan

Context Clues Quiz

Game

Context Clues Quiz

Work on reading comprehension with this quiz to practice using context clues to find the definition of a word.

1st grade

Reading & Writing

Game

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