TES Global
Blendspace: Metaphors and Similes
A twelve-part learning module with links to videos, images, websites, and a quiz on metaphors and similes.
TES Global
Blendspace: Idioms, Adages, Proverbs
A six-part learning module with links to texts and videos to use while learning about idioms, adages, and proverbs.
TES Global
Blendspace: Idioms
A sixteen-part learning module with links to images, texts, and a video on idioms.
TES Global
Blendspace: Literary Devices
A learning module with eighteen links to videos and images to use when learning about literary devices including simile, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, and alliteration.
TES Global
Blendspace: Figurative Language
A nine-part learning module with links to images and a video about figurative language including simile, onomatopoeia, and metaphor.
TES Global
Blendspace: Learning Figurative Language Rap
A learning module with twenty-four links to websites, images, texts, and videos to use while learning about figurative language.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Personification
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces students to personification and contains activities for practice.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Poetry
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart provides an introduction to poetry terms, examples, and web links.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Proverbs
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart the student identifies the characteristics of various genres and produces evidence of reading that responds to and analyzes the effects of sound, figurative language, and graphics in...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Simile and Metaphor
[Free Registration/Login Required] This elementary flipchart explores examples of simile and metaphor as students brainstorm ideas with the class.
TES Global
Blendspace: Similes & Metaphors by Mrs. Wade
A six-part learning module with links to videos and websites about similes and metaphors.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Spelling City: Figurative Language
This website focuses on figurative language: hyperbole, simile, metaphor, personification, and idioms. It provides lists of examples for each based on three educational levels: elementary, middle school, and high school.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Using Specific Detail
[Free Registration/Login Required] This elementary flipchart promotes creative writing using supportive details. Students will explore examples from literature and consider ways to improve their writing.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Figurative Language
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource explores figurative language including similes, metaphors, and personification. There are many activities used to support the exploration of each type of figurative language.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Figurative Language and Persuasive Writing
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews figurative language and persuasive writing. It also includes an Activote session.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Figurative Language and Sound Devices
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is intended for students in grades 4 and 5 who have been introduced to the terms simile, metaphor, hyperbole, alliteration, and onomatopoeia. The activities in the flipchart give...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Idioms(have You Ever Seen a Pig Fly!)
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students are introduced to idioms as a form of figurative language in this flipchart.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Metaphors and Similes
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces metaphors and similes. It also provides practice and a writing assessment.
Other
Kids on the Net: Dragonville: Do You Know Your Metaphors?
In this game, students are to drag the words on the right to the complete the metaphor on the left. The time begins as soon as the game is opened.
Other
Kids on the Net: Dragonville: Do You Know Your Similes?
The object of this game is to drag the words on the right to form similes with the phrases on the left before the time runs out. The time begins as soon as the page is opened.
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: Paint by Idioms
Learn the meaning of various English idioms associated with animals, moods, and body parts.
Other
My Schoolhouse: Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole
Definitions and examples of simile, metaphor, and hyperbole followed by 15 sentences asking students to identify whether the sentence contains a simile, metaphor, or hyperbole.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Context Clues With Vocabulary
This lesson focuses on using context clues within a sentences to determine the meaning of an unknown word. Additional skills of prefixes and root words are included. Answer pages are provided for each practice activity.
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms: Genre
Brief definition of the literary term.