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3rd - 6th Grade Metaphor Educational Resources

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

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Figurative Language Handout

Practice analyzing figurative language in context with this excerpt from C.S. Lewis&rsquo;s classic fantasy novel, <em>The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe</em>!

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Targeted Reading Skills Practice: Figurative Language in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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

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Figurative Language Practice

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

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Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #1

Students will understand how to identify and use metaphors after they work through this exercise.


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Metaphors 1

Practice analyzing poetry with&nbsp;one of Emily Dickinson&rsquo;s most popular poems!

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Analyzing Poetry:  “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers" by Emily Dickinson

Practice identifying metaphors with this fun, winter-themed figurative language maze!

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Figurative Language Maze: Winter Metaphors

Practice identifying metaphors with this fun, summer-themed figurative language maze!

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Figurative Language Maze: Summer Metaphors

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

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Figurative Language in Context #1

Learners discover the magic of figurative language in this reading and writing exercise.

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Review: Metaphors and Similes

Children are introduced to Tennyson the Turtle, a reptile who likes to use metaphors and similes, in this appealing worksheet!

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Metaphors and Similes

Descriptive language and metaphoric phrases take the spotlight in this workbook. Kids use new vocabulary and common phrases to tackle writing skills.

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Figurative Language

In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying metaphors as they color in the logs that contain them.

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What Is a Metaphor?

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

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Making Sense of Figurative Language 1

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!

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Pick a Peck of Poetry

Teach students how to use short stories to illustrate a point with this engaging exercise.


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Metaphors 2

Students will be able to creatively apply metaphors to their discussions after they complete this exercise.


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Metaphors 3

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Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #2

Help Muggo sort metaphors in this categorization game.

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Sorting Metaphors

How is a grapefruit like a moon? They are both round! Students will identify which items are being compared in a metaphor, then describe one way they are alike.

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Metaphors

Kids categorize metaphors by type in this sorting game.

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Muggo's Brain: Sorting Metaphors

Students will read metaphors and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

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Reading & Understanding Metaphors

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

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Making Sense of Figurative Language 3

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.

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Fall Figurative Language Task Cards

Brush up on your figurative language skills this fall season with this engaging metaphors maze!

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Figurative Language Maze: Fall Metaphors

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

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Writing Metaphors with Linking Verbs

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

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Examples of Similes

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.

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.

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Animal Metaphors

This worksheet is a slam dunk for metaphors! Your young writer will learn what makes up a metaphor, and then practice making a few of their own.

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3rd - 6th Grade Metaphor Educational Resources