Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Similes with Linking Words.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Similes with Linking Words.

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

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?

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 ski

EL students will read similes and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

Children read a passage from L. Frank Baum's classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, then answer a series of questions in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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.

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!

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

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

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

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