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5th Grade Simile Educational Resources

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

Figurative Language Handout

This worksheet will help your child understand what similes are, and she'll even get to use her imagination to write some of her own!

Scrambled Similes

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

Review: Metaphors and Similes

As quiet as a mouse or as quiet as a cucumber? Kids will learn the definition of a simile, then use pictures as clues to complete the similes.

Similes: Clear as Crystal

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with this worksheet featuring summer-themed similes!

Figurative Language Maze: Summer Similes

Students hone their language and grammar skills with this fun, winter-themed figurative language maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Winter Similes

Learners will have fun honing their language and grammar skills with this fall-themed figurative language maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Fall Similes

Students will be as confident in writing as a Pulitzer Prize winner after completing this final exercise in the similes series.


Similes 3

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.

Figurative Language

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.

Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #2

EL students will read similes and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

Reading & Understanding Similes

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

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

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

Writing Similes with Linking Words

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Similes with Linking Words.

Glossary: Similes with Linking Words

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Similes with Linking Words.

Vocabulary Cards: Similes with Linking Words

Help kids learn about similes with this sorting game.

Sorting Similes in Muggo's Brain

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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