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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

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your learners research facts about Associate Justice to the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

Two Truths and One Lie: Sonia Sotomayor

Help your writers develop a voice with this worksheet. Challenge them to think about ways to express themselves with language, phrases, idioms, similes, and word choice.

Tuning My Writing Voice

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

Working with Analogies 2

The structure of a paragraph becomes clearer when you think critically about the choices a great author made and try to recreate them.

Paragraph Puzzle 2

Show students editing symbols that are used to polish writing before publishing. Then, have them practice editing a short story.

Polishing Practice 2

Assess your students’ knowledge of the revision process and its role in the writing process.

Revision Review #2

Are your students ready to see narratives from a different perspective? This reading lesson will get students excited about discovering first- and third-person points of view.

Two Points of View

In this worksheet, learners will rewrite a short paragraph using smooth, flowing sentences.

Sentence Makeover Part 2

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Practice Using Transitions #2

Help your students practice using two antonyms to create an oxymoron.

Oxymoron Creations

Writers learn how to plan a well-written paragraph with this two-part worksheet.

Let's Practice! How to Write a Paragraph

Analogies are a way of describing the similarities between two things by comparing them.

What Is an Analogy?

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

Journal Writing Task Cards #2

With this art-based activity, students will practice supporting their opinion with evidence.

Respond to Art: Opinion & Evidence #2

In this worksheet, young writers will read two simple descriptions, then rewrite them using more vivid verbs and adjectives.

Imagery Using Verbs and Adjectives

Young writers will practice identifying the five parts of an effective argument before writing their own argument.

Argument Writing: Parts of an Argument #2

This worksheet walks students through an example of how the dialogue between two or more characters can help writers change the pacing of a narrative.

Using Dialogue to Pace Your Piece

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make claims and support them with strong evidence.

Cite and Explain Your Evidence #2: Literary Response

Do you want your students to have confident, informative discussions? Build student discourse and writing confidence with these comparison sentence frames! Students will use sentence and paragraph frames to practice comparing two nouns of their choice.

Language Frames: Compare & Contrast

Help students learn about descriptive writing with this engaging lesson. Your class will learn to show character emotions though the “show, don’t tell” writing technique with videos, practice writing, and class participation.

Writing: Show, Don’t Tell

This graphic organizer will help your young writers organize and explain their supporting evidence.

Collecting Strong Evidence

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make a claim that they can support with strong evidence.

Cite and Explain Your Evidence #1: Literary Response

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

Sea Turtle Citations: Paraphrasing & Direct Quotes

These example literary responses model how to cite and explain evidence to support a claim.

How to Cite Strong Evidence: Literary Response

Practice Using Transitions #1

Kids revise run-on sentences with this worksheet.

Correcting Run-On Sentences

This resource gives your students practice outlining an informational paragraph on changes during the spring season.

Informational Outlines 1

Use this exercise with your students to pick out facts that would support a paragraph about spring cleaning

Informational Outlines 3

Young writers expand their transition word lexicon in this comprehensive three-page worksheet.

Informational Writing: Linking Ideas

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