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Metaphor Resources : Page 2

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

Making Sense of Figurative Language 3

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.

Metaphors in Context

In this exercise, students will use linking verbs to write metaphors with support.

Writing Metaphors with Linking Verbs

Use this discussion guide to support students&rsquo; comprehension and analysis of chapters 5&ndash;8 of S.E. Hinton&rsquo;s novel<em> The Outsiders.</em>

Novel Study: The Outsiders: Discussion Guide #2

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.

Figurative Language

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.

Animal Metaphors

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

Kids categorize metaphors by type in this sorting game.

Muggo's Brain: Sorting Metaphors

In this reading and writing worksheet about the poem “A Nation’s Strength” by William Ralph Emerson, students will use their understanding of figurative language to identify and define metaphors and difficult vocabulary.

A Nation’s Strength

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.

Making 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

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

Introduce your students to analogies with this fun, fill-in-the-blank worksheet!

Awesome Analogies

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

Metaphor and Simile Search

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Sense of Metaphors.

Glossary: Making Sense of Metaphors

Kids help Muggo sort metaphors into emotions, actions, and appearances.

Metaphor Sorting in Muggo's Brain

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

Vocabulary Cards: Making Sense of Metaphors

This literary lesson has students delving into Emily Dickinson's "The Moon was but a Chin of Gold" to find different types of figurative language. Writers will love sharpening reading comprehension skills with this poetry analysis activity.

Poetry: Figurative Language

Introduce readers to the poem &ldquo;I like to see it lap the Miles&rdquo; by beloved American poet Emily Dickinson.

Analyzing Poetry: “I like to see it lap the Miles” by Emily Dickinson

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with this Valentine&#39;s Day-themed metaphors maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Valentine's Day Metaphors

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

Figurative Language Maze: Earth Day Metaphors

Let your figurative language skills blossom with this middle-grade springtime metaphor maze!&nbsp;

Figurative Language Maze: Spring Metaphors

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