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Use this lesson to help your ELs understand the structure and meaning of similes. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support for the lesson Soulful Similes and Musical Metaphors.

Similes with Linking Words

This lesson provides a concrete introduction to similes. Students will get a confidence boost after working together and completing some fun and colorful worksheets.

Introduction to Similes

Baby, you're a firework! In this musical lesson, your students will use context clues to determine the meaning of similes and metaphors in popular music. They will then use this knowledge to write their own metaphors and similes.



Soulful Similes and Musical Metaphors

This lesson will give students an opportunity to have fun while learning about and using similes.

Making Similes as Easy as Pie

Your little poets will love how their creative writing abilities will grow with this lesson about similes and metaphors. Students engage in fun activities to learn about similes and metaphors and write comparisons as directed.

Similes and Metaphors: Comparisons Done Right

Every student is unique. This lesson emphasizes that uniqueness by having young learners use similes to share some of the traits that make them special. It features Quick as a Cricket by Audrey Wood and a fantastic storyboard exercise.

Similes That Describe ME!


Similes, metaphors, and idioms are some of the most widely used literary devices in both speaking and writing. Students will review each of these and practice creating some of their own. 


Similes, Metaphors, and Idioms of Figurative Language

We've all heard not to judge a book or a person by its cover. This topic is poignantly covered in the Vietnamese myth of the Crystal Heart. In this lesson, students will read the myth and write similes in the style of the fisherman's song.

The Crystal Heart: Writing Similes

Use this lesson to help your ELs explore adjectives and how we can use them to describe things. This lesson can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for the *Similes that Describe ME!* lesson.

Using Adjectives and Similes to Describe

Will one be left out? Students will practice creative problem solving as they strive to answer this question and determine whether a group is even or odd.  

Odd One Out

Many students cringe when they see a subtraction problem with multiple zeros. The “Subtract One” strategy in this lesson involves reducing the top number by one to turn the 0 digits into 9’s and then adding the one back in at the end.

“Subtract One” Strategy: Subtracting From Zeros Without Borrowing

Let students stretch their problem solving skills in this lesson that teaches them how to solve problems where one-digit numbers are multiplied by multiples of 10.

Multiplying One-Digit Numbers By 10

Cats are the best! Pizza is better! My teacher rules! In Fact or Opinion: Part 1, your students will combine reading and writing to learn about the differences between facts and opinions and how those differences are communicated.

Fact or Opinion: Part 1

It’s time to learn a new strategy! Teach your students to use the partial quotients strategy to solve long division problems with one-digit divisors and no remainder.


Using the Partial Quotients Strategy for Division with One-Digit Divisors

In this lesson, students will consider equations with fall pictures serving as the number value and decide which equations are true and which is a lie. The worksheets in this speaking and math lesson follow the Two Truths and One Lie game.

Discuss Fall Equations with Two Truths and One Lie

Swift as a coursing river, your students will get the hang of similes with this creativity-fueled writing lesson. Featuring a bunch of fun worksheets, these activities are sure to keep young learners engaged.

Simile for Me!

Do your students struggle with similes and metaphors? Do they have trouble identifying the two different types of analogies? This lesson will help simplify the two and put an end to the confusion.


Simile vs. Metaphor

Figurative language is so tricky, especially for English Learners! Use this lesson to introduce the concept with a focus on similes and metaphors.

Figurative Language

What do you use to make what you need? Resources! Students will explore the three kinds of resources producers use to create the products the use and sell. 

One, Two, Three Resources!

It’s pizza time! Students will be introduced to the concept of partitioning shapes to create fractions that demonstrate halves, fourths, and eighths. This lesson is the first of two lessons that address second grade fraction concepts.

Slice It Up! (Part One)

Get your students excited about money! Have them make connections between their prior knowledge of base-ten numerals and one, ten, and hundred dollar bills.

Base-Ten Money: Hundreds, Tens, and Ones

Teach your students to use number lines to illustrate fractions as products, specifically where one factor is a fraction and one fraction is a whole number.

Fractions as Whole Number Multiples

One million is a hard number for young children to grasp. This lesson will help students understand how large of a number one million is and what is represents.

How Much is a Million?

Foots or feet? In this lesson, students will identify irregular plural nouns. They will learn that some plural nouns don't follow any spelling rules.

More Than One: Irregular Plural Nouns

The flying, crowing, strutting figure of Peter Pan is known to kids of all ages, but how much do we really know? In this lesson, your class will use the Peter Pan and Neverland workbook to take a closer look at Peter and his world.

Peter Pan and Neverland 1: A Child Forever

This lesson combines students' knowledge of US geography and their creative writing skills in one fun activity!

Switching U.S. States

Animals and spots are used to make multiplication interesting! In this lesson, students will practice multiplying one digit numbers.

Animal Spots: Multiplication Practice

Use this lesson to have your students learn about producers and consumers by pretending to be one.

Producers and Consumers!

Second to the right, and straight on 'til morning. In this lesson, your students will work on reading comprehensions while continuing to learn more about Peter Pan in their journey through the Peter Pan and Neverland workbook.

Peter Pan and Neverland 2: The Flight Part 1

This lesson combines three essential skills in one entertaining game! Students will need to add, subtract, and understand place value with decimals.

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