Similes Worksheets

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

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Scrambled Similes

Worksheet

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!

5th 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

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Simile or Metaphor

Worksheet

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

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Figurative Language Practice

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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.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Metaphors and Similes

Worksheet

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.

4th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

What is Personification?

Worksheet

What is Personification?

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

5th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Similes: Clear as Crystal

Worksheet

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.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Review: Metaphors and Similes

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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!

4th grade

Reading & writing

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All About Metaphors

Worksheet

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.

5th grade

Reading & writing

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Simile Scramble

Worksheet

Simile Scramble

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

2nd grade

Reading & writing

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Metaphor and Simile Search

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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

2nd grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

Making Sense of Figurative Language 1

Worksheet

Making Sense of Figurative Language 1

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

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Examples of Similes

Worksheet

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.

5th grade

Reading & writing

Worksheet

The Twisted Ankle

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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?

2nd grade

Reading & writing

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Making Sense of Figurative Language 2

Worksheet

Making Sense of Figurative Language 2

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

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Silly Similes

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Silly Similes

Let's get as silly as a goose with these similes! Students will get creative as they finish simple similes with this introductory worksheet. After they finish, give them a chance to share their favorites with the class!

2nd grade

Reading & writing

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Write Your Own Similes

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Write Your Own Similes

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 skills.

2nd grade

Reading & writing

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