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5th Grade Common Core Metaphor Educational Resources

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

Figurative Language Handout

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.

Animal 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.

Metaphors

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

Writing Metaphors with Linking Verbs

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.

All About Metaphors

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

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

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


Metaphors 3

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

Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #1

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

Figurative Language

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

Review: Metaphors and Similes

Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #2

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

Reading & Understanding Metaphors

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.

Fall Figurative Language Task Cards

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

Examples of Similes

Kids categorize metaphors by type in this sorting game.

Muggo's Brain: Sorting Metaphors

Kids help Muggo sort metaphors into emotions, actions, and appearances.

Metaphor Sorting in Muggo's Brain

In this reading and writing worksheet about the poem “A Nation’s Strength” by William Ralph Emerson, students will use their understanding of figurative language to identify and define metaphors and difficult vocabulary.

A Nation’s Strength

Introduce your students to analogies with this fun, fill-in-the-blank worksheet!

Awesome Analogies

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Sense of Metaphors.

Glossary: Making Sense of Metaphors

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Sense of Metaphors.

Vocabulary Cards: Making Sense of Metaphors

This literary lesson has students delving into Emily Dickinson's "The Moon was but a Chin of Gold" to find different types of figurative language. Writers will love sharpening reading comprehension skills with this poetry analysis activity.

Poetry: Figurative Language

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5th Grade Common Core Metaphor Educational Resources

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