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Once students get underway with this Education.com exercise, learning about similes is easy as pie.


Similes 1

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

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

Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #1

This grammar worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of figurative language in context, including similes, metaphors, idioms, and personification.

Figurative Language in Context #1

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

Making Sense of Figurative Language 1

Children practice identifying and interpreting one type of figurative language, similes, in nine sample sentences.

Making Sense of Figurative Language 2

Practice identifying similes like a seasoned expert with this fun, spring-themed maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Spring Similes

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

Figurative Language Maze: Halloween Similes

Students hone their ability to spot literary devices with this fun, winter-themed figurative language maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Winter Similes

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with this worksheet featuring summer-themed similes!

Figurative Language Maze: Summer Similes

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

Figurative Language Maze: Valentine's Day Similes

Learners will have fun honing their language and grammar skills with this fall-themed figurative language maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Fall Similes

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

Examples of 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.

Write Your Own Similes

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

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

Strong writing engages all five senses, and this fabulous fall-themed simile activity is the perfect way to celebrate sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.

Fall Similes

Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #2

Sort similes as emotions, actions, or appearances.

Sorting Similes

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

Figurative Language Practice

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!

Scrambled Similes

This seventh-grade worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of allusion (mythological, biblical, literary, or historical), simile, personification, or metaphor. 

Figurative Language in Context #2

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.

Similes: Easy as Pie

Help students learn and remember key types of figurative language with this convenient handout!

Figurative Language Handout

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