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Simile and Metaphor

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

Figurative Language Practice

Help demystify figurative language for your third grader with this worksheet that challenges him to explain what the figurative descriptions in bold mean.

Similes: Easy as Pie

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

Scrambled Similes

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

Similes: Clear as Crystal

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.

All About 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 her own.

Metaphors and Similes

Tennyson the Turtle provides a jolly introduction to metaphors and similes! Help your child to identify the figures of speech in this story.

What is Personification?

Help your writing sing with personification! Practice identifying the different examples of personification in these poems by Emily Dickinson.

Review: Metaphors and Similes

Review metaphors and similes by underlining each time Paulo uses them in his postcard to Katherine. Then, students will practice writing their own!

Making Sense of Figurative Language 2

Use this resource with your students to practice using context clues to find the meaning of nonliteral language.

Examples of Similes

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

Making Sense of Figurative Language 1

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

The Twisted Ankle

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?

Metaphor and Simile Search

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 thin

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