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

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

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

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

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.

Use this activity to help students find and decipher metaphors in the context of short passages. Students will read the passages, record what is being compared in each, and then seek to explain the metaphors' meanings in their own words.

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

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

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

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

Let your figurative language skills blossom with this middle-grade springtime metaphor maze! 

Introduce readers to the poem “I like to see it lap the Miles” by beloved American poet Emily Dickinson.

Metaphors are imaginative ways to describe something by comparing that thing to something else. With this worksheet, students will write a metaphor for each pair of given words.

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Halloween-themed metaphors!

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

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