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Simile or Metaphor
Worksheet
Simile or Metaphor
Second Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
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.
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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.
Second Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Worksheet
Similes 2
Exercise
Similes 2
Fourth Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Your students will be all smiles when learning how to compare objects with this similes exercise.
Exercise
Similes 2
Exercise
Similes 2
Your students will be all smiles when learning how to compare objects with this similes exercise.
Fourth Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Exercise
Compare and Contrast in Poetry: "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" and "Still will I harvest beauty where it grows"
Worksheet
Compare and Contrast in Poetry: "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" and "Still will I harvest beauty where it grows"
Seventh Grade
Reading
Examine the theme of beauty while reading and analyzing two different poems in this two-page worksheet for middle grades!
Worksheet
Compare and Contrast in Poetry: "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" and "Still will I harvest beauty where it grows"
Worksheet
Compare and Contrast in Poetry: "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" and "Still will I harvest beauty where it grows"
Examine the theme of beauty while reading and analyzing two different poems in this two-page worksheet for middle grades!
Seventh Grade
Reading
Worksheet
Figurative Language: Idioms
Worksheet
Figurative Language: Idioms
Third Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Use this resource with your students to practice using context clues to determine the meaning of idioms.
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Figurative Language: Idioms
Worksheet
Figurative Language: Idioms
Use this resource with your students to practice using context clues to determine the meaning of idioms.
Third Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Worksheet
Figurative Language Maze: Fall Similes
Interactive Worksheet
Figurative Language Maze: Fall Similes
Fourth Grade
Figurative Language
Learners will have fun honing their language and grammar skills with this fall-themed figurative language maze!
Interactive Worksheet
Figurative Language Maze: Fall Similes
Interactive Worksheet
Figurative Language Maze: Fall Similes
Learners will have fun honing their language and grammar skills with this fall-themed figurative language maze!
Fourth Grade
Figurative Language
Interactive Worksheet
Idioms 2
Exercise
Idioms 2
Fifth Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Give a cultural lesson and expand your students’ vocabulary at the same time with this idioms exercise.
Exercise
Idioms 2
Exercise
Idioms 2
Give a cultural lesson and expand your students’ vocabulary at the same time with this idioms exercise.
Fifth Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Exercise
Determine the Meaning of Common Allusions
Worksheet
Determine the Meaning of Common Allusions
Seventh Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Learners will use their background knowledge and sentence-based context clues to determine the meaning of common allusions.
Worksheet
Determine the Meaning of Common Allusions
Worksheet
Determine the Meaning of Common Allusions
Learners will use their background knowledge and sentence-based context clues to determine the meaning of common allusions.
Seventh Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Worksheet
Idioms: A Figure of Speech
Worksheet
Idioms: A Figure of Speech
Third Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
What does "when pigs fly" mean if pigs can't really fly? Kids use context clues to learn the meanings of common idioms on this third grade reading worksheet.
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Idioms: A Figure of Speech
Worksheet
Idioms: A Figure of Speech
What does "when pigs fly" mean if pigs can't really fly? Kids use context clues to learn the meanings of common idioms on this third grade reading worksheet.
Third Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Worksheet
Metaphors 3
Exercise
Metaphors 3
Fifth Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Students will be able to creatively apply metaphors to their discussions after they complete this exercise.
Exercise
Metaphors 3
Exercise
Metaphors 3
Students will be able to creatively apply metaphors to their discussions after they complete this exercise.
Fifth Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Exercise
Review: Metaphors and Similes
Worksheet
Review: Metaphors and Similes
Fourth Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Learners discover the magic of figurative language in this reading and writing exercise.
Worksheet
Review: Metaphors and Similes
Worksheet
Review: Metaphors and Similes
Learners discover the magic of figurative language in this reading and writing exercise.
Fourth Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Worksheet
Pick a Peck of Poetry
Workbook
Pick a Peck of Poetry
Third Grade
Reading
What's a metaphor? How do you haiku? Kids will hone reading and writing skills with this book, from a simple syllable counting exercise to inventing rhymes and tangling with the Jabberwocky!
Workbook
Pick a Peck of Poetry
Workbook
Pick a Peck of Poetry
What's a metaphor? How do you haiku? Kids will hone reading and writing skills with this book, from a simple syllable counting exercise to inventing rhymes and tangling with the Jabberwocky!
Third Grade
Reading
Workbook
Figurative Language: Identifying Alliteration
Worksheet
Figurative Language: Identifying Alliteration
Third Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Alliteration is a fun way to play with language! Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration
Worksheet
Figurative Language: Identifying Alliteration
Worksheet
Figurative Language: Identifying Alliteration
Alliteration is a fun way to play with language! Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration
Third Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Worksheet
Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #2
Worksheet
Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #2
Fifth Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Children work with two forms of figurative language in this grammar worksheet.
Worksheet
Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #2
Worksheet
Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #2
Children work with two forms of figurative language in this grammar worksheet.
Fifth Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Worksheet
What Is a Metaphor?
Worksheet
What Is a Metaphor?
Third Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying metaphors as they color in the logs that contain them.
Worksheet
What Is a Metaphor?
Worksheet
What Is a Metaphor?
In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying metaphors as they color in the logs that contain them.
Third Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Worksheet
Figurative Language: Alliteration in Poetry
Worksheet
Figurative Language: Alliteration in Poetry
Third Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Alliteration is a type of figurative language that is often used in poetry. Use this classic poem with your students to practice identifying alliteration in context.
Worksheet
Figurative Language: Alliteration in Poetry
Worksheet
Figurative Language: Alliteration in Poetry
Alliteration is a type of figurative language that is often used in poetry. Use this classic poem with your students to practice identifying alliteration in context.
Third Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Worksheet
Metaphors 2
Exercise
Metaphors 2
Fourth Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Teach students how to use short stories to illustrate a point with this engaging exercise.
Exercise
Metaphors 2
Exercise
Metaphors 2
Teach students how to use short stories to illustrate a point with this engaging exercise.
Fourth Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Exercise
Analyzing Poetry: “O Captain! My Captain!” by Walt Whitman
Worksheet
Analyzing Poetry: “O Captain! My Captain!” by Walt Whitman
Seventh Grade
Reading
Introduce readers to the poem “O Captain! My Captain!” by American poet Walt Whitman with this seventh-grade reading comprehension worksheet!
Worksheet
Analyzing Poetry: “O Captain! My Captain!” by Walt Whitman
Worksheet
Analyzing Poetry: “O Captain! My Captain!” by Walt Whitman
Introduce readers to the poem “O Captain! My Captain!” by American poet Walt Whitman with this seventh-grade reading comprehension worksheet!
Seventh Grade
Reading
Worksheet
Similes 3
Exercise
Similes 3
Fifth Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Students will be as confident in writing as a Pulitzer Prize winner after completing this final exercise in the similes series.
Exercise
Similes 3
Exercise
Similes 3
Students will be as confident in writing as a Pulitzer Prize winner after completing this final exercise in the similes series.
Fifth Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Exercise
Figurative Language in Context #1
Worksheet
Figurative Language in Context #1
Sixth Grade
Figurative Language
This grammar worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of figurative language in context, including similes, metaphors, idioms, and personification.
Worksheet
Figurative Language in Context #1
Worksheet
Figurative Language in Context #1
This grammar worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of figurative language in context, including similes, metaphors, idioms, and personification.
Sixth Grade
Figurative Language
Worksheet
Identical Idioms
Worksheet
Identical Idioms
Fifth Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
This resource makes matching idioms as easy as pie! Students will pair idioms based on their identical meaning.
Worksheet
Identical Idioms
Worksheet
Identical Idioms
This resource makes matching idioms as easy as pie! Students will pair idioms based on their identical meaning.
Fifth Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Worksheet
Hyperbole
Exercise
Hyperbole
Fifth Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Students will finally have a name to describe the “dog ate my homework” storytelling that runs rampant throughout childhood with this hyperbole exercise.
Exercise
Hyperbole
Exercise
Hyperbole
Students will finally have a name to describe the “dog ate my homework” storytelling that runs rampant throughout childhood with this hyperbole exercise.
Fifth Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Exercise
Pun
Exercise
Pun
Fifth Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
There’s nothing greater than a student who can appreciate a pun activity when they play one.
Exercise
Pun
Exercise
Pun
There’s nothing greater than a student who can appreciate a pun activity when they play one.
Fifth Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Exercise
Personification to Enhance Writing
Worksheet
Personification to Enhance Writing
Sixth Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Middle school writers practice rewriting sentences using personification to add description and make the sentences more exciting!
Worksheet
Personification to Enhance Writing
Worksheet
Personification to Enhance Writing
Middle school writers practice rewriting sentences using personification to add description and make the sentences more exciting!
Sixth Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Worksheet
Hyperbole in Poetry
Worksheet
Hyperbole in Poetry
Fifth Grade
Writing
This poem offers a fun, memorable example for students as they learn to interpret figurative language in works of poetry and literature.
Worksheet
Hyperbole in Poetry
Worksheet
Hyperbole in Poetry
This poem offers a fun, memorable example for students as they learn to interpret figurative language in works of poetry and literature.
Fifth Grade
Writing
Worksheet
Analyzing Poetry: "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by William Butler Yeats
Worksheet
Analyzing Poetry: "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by William Butler Yeats
Seventh Grade
Reading
Introduce readers to the poem "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by William Butler Yeats with this poetry analysis worksheet!
Worksheet
Analyzing Poetry: "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by William Butler Yeats
Worksheet
Analyzing Poetry: "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by William Butler Yeats
Introduce readers to the poem "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by William Butler Yeats with this poetry analysis worksheet!
Seventh Grade
Reading
Worksheet
Determine the Meaning of Common Allusions #2
Worksheet
Determine the Meaning of Common Allusions #2
Seventh Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Learners use their background knowledge and sentence-based context clues to determine the meaning of more common allusions.
Worksheet
Determine the Meaning of Common Allusions #2
Worksheet
Determine the Meaning of Common Allusions #2
Learners use their background knowledge and sentence-based context clues to determine the meaning of more common allusions.
Seventh Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Worksheet
Hyperbole Story
Worksheet
Hyperbole Story
Fifth Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Have fun with hyperbole in this funny fill-in story-writing worksheet!
Worksheet
Hyperbole Story
Worksheet
Hyperbole Story
Have fun with hyperbole in this funny fill-in story-writing worksheet!
Fifth Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Worksheet
Examples of Hyperbole! Part 2
Worksheet
Examples of Hyperbole! Part 2
Second Grade
Reading
Children will practice bringing excitement to their writing in this fun language and vocabulary worksheet.
Worksheet
Examples of Hyperbole! Part 2
Worksheet
Examples of Hyperbole! Part 2
Children will practice bringing excitement to their writing in this fun language and vocabulary worksheet.
Second Grade
Reading
Worksheet
Character Archetype Trading Cards
Worksheet
Character Archetype Trading Cards
Sixth Grade
Reading
Get students thinking critically and creatively about character archetypes in the novels they’re reading with this engaging reading activity!
Worksheet
Character Archetype Trading Cards
Worksheet
Character Archetype Trading Cards
Get students thinking critically and creatively about character archetypes in the novels they’re reading with this engaging reading activity!
Sixth Grade
Reading
Worksheet
Alliteration
Exercise
Alliteration
Fifth Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
Every educator eschews un-exciting educational exercises; employ this Education.com exercise for an entertaining and eventful lesson on alliteration!
Exercise
Alliteration
Exercise
Alliteration
Every educator eschews un-exciting educational exercises; employ this Education.com exercise for an entertaining and eventful lesson on alliteration!
Fifth Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
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