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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Figurative Language Awards Ceremony

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for five to seven lessons that teach about figurative language like similes, metaphors, and personification by asking students to write award acceptance speeches that incorporate them. In addition to objectives and...
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TES Global

Blendspace: Rl 5.4 Figurative Language

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This twelve-part learning module provides assorted references for figurative language terms. This blendspace provides reproducible charts, flash cards, a game, video tutorial lessons, and rap songs. L.9-10.5 Fig Lang/nuances
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Figurative Language Poems With Questions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This learning module provides remediation and extra practice with identifying figurative language techniques in the context of poems. Nine different worksheets are available to help reinforce the concept of figurative language in poetry.
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Simile Worksheets

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This site contains figurative language worksheets that assess students' understanding of similes in the context of sentence. After seeing an example, students will fill in the words that are compared in each simile. In addition, students...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Figurative Language Examples

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Along with definitions for four types of figurative language, this learning module provides numerous examples. Similes, metaphors, personification, and hyperbole are the types of figurative language featured.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Figurative Language

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
A twelve-part learning module on figurative language including links to images, videos, a song, and a game to help students learn.
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TES Global

Tes: Different Cultures Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Thsi PowerPoint lesson will lead students through Benjamin Zephaniah's poem titled "Carnival Days". Topics relative to slavery are included in the slideshow.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Figurative Language Review

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson helps students understand figurative language.
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Figurative Language: Reading Test 3

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
A ten-question quiz on recognizing similes, metaphors, hyperbole, and personification. Results can be printed, saved, or emailed.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Grammar Basics: Metaphors

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn about similes and metaphors through this multimedia presentation. First view a slide show describing different types of metaphors as well as a simile. Then watch a video [3:13] showing similes and metaphors used in popular songs. A...
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Read Works

Read Works: 2nd Grade Lesson: Figurative Language

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the book Once in a Blue Moon by Nicola Morgan to learn to identify and interpret the meaning of figurative language in a fiction text. Lesson includes direct teaching,...
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Read Works

Read Works: Figurative Language 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this three-lesson unit, students use the book If You Hopped Like a Frog by David Schwartz and some additional short texts to learn to identify and understand the use of simile and metaphor in fiction...
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Read Works

Read Works: 4th Grade Lesson: Similes and Metaphors

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the book Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes edited by David Roessel and Arnold Rampersad to learn to identify and understand the use of simile and metaphor in...
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Read Works

Read Works: 3rd Grade Lesson: Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use two provided poems to learn to identify and understand the use of similes and metaphors in poetry. Lesson includes direct teaching, guided practice, and independent...
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TES Global

Blendspace: Figurative Language & Tone

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
A twelve-part learning module with links to texts, videos, and websites on figurative language and tone.
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McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill: Informational Text: Craft and Structure: Figurative Language

For Students 2nd - 7th Standards
Explains what figurative language is and how to determine its meaning. Also provides a practice exercise.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Identifying Figures of Speech [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A graphic organizer which allows students to document and list the figures of speech they identify in a given piece of literature. These include simile, metaphor, personification, and symbol, and require examples from the text.
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Figurative Language: Shakespeare

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This learning module provides remediation and extra practice with identifying figurative language techniques found in excerpts written by William Shakespeare. A worksheet is available to help reinforce the concept of figurative language...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Figurative Language Worksheets

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This learning module provides remediation and extra practice with identifying different types of figurative language. Reinforcement is provided through the worksheets, quizzes, video game links, and online sites for the following types...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Figurative Language Activities

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Numerous activities, games, quizzes, lessons, and PowerPoint presentations are provided for the topic of "figurative language" in writing. Students will have numerous exposures to examples. Students will also be able to practice...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Teaching Poetry Through Riddles

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Excellent teaching resource that attempts to teach poetic concepts to middle schoolers by using riddles. Discusses riddles' use of metaphor, simile, and imagery, and relates these concepts to the middle schoolers' understanding of...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Writing Narratives

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Notes, a PowerPoint presentation, two videos, a song, an exercise, and a game help students to understand how to write a narrative. Elements of a narrative as well as the use of figurative language and sensory images are introduced and...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Simile and Metaphor

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explain the effect of similes and extended metaphors in literary text.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Imagery: Simile and Metaphor (English I Reading)

For Students 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Identify the similes and metaphors in a text and evaluate their importance to the meaning of the text. RL.9-10.5 text structure effects