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Handout
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Compare and Contrast Ideas

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
This reading resource discusses the strategy of comparing and contrasting ideas. Students will learn definitions and explanations for similes, metaphors, and analogies. A list of guiding questions is provided to help students as they...
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Unit Plan
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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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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Activity
Other

My Schoolhouse: Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
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.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Simile and Metaphor

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This elementary flipchart explores examples of simile and metaphor as students brainstorm ideas with the class.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Metaphor & Simile

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps students understand the use of metaphors and similes in written and spoken language. There are several fun examples, activities and whole group feedback using Activotes.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Stairway to Heaven Examining Metaphor in Popular Music

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Contains plans for two lessons that ask students to make connections between literary texts and popular culture texts like song lyrics. After checking popular culture texts for literary elements, these elements are then examined in...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Poetry and Music Fun With Chris Daughtry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This language arts lesson grabs students' attention by incorporating a popular musician. The lyrics to "Over You" include vivid language that makes identifying figures of speech intriguing. The students will identify similes, metaphors,...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Proverbs

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
[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...
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eBook
Other

Paradigm Education: My Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, Act 4, Scene 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The text of Act IV of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, accompanied by audio narration. Be sure to advance to scenes 2 and 3 (or to other acts of the play) using the buttons at the top. Includes audio narration, performance clips, discussion...
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Figurative Language

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
A forty-six part learning module including links to informational texts, videos, pictures, practice exercises and more on various types of figurative language such as simile, metaphor, personification, idiom, alliteration, hyperbole, and...
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Gallagher Figurative Language

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
A learning module with thirty-one links to images, texts, websites, and videos to on figurative language including simile, metaphor, personification, idiom, alliteration, hyperbole, and onomatopoeia.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Figurative Language

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A fifteen-part learning module with links to images, texts, and websites to use while learning about figurative language including simile, metaphor, idioms, and more.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Figurative Language

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A ten-part learning module with links to videos, websites, texts, and a quiz on figurative language simile, metaphor, idiom, cliche, symbolism, and more.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Literary Devices

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
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.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Figurative Language 6th Grade

For Students 6th Standards
A seven-part learning module with links to websites, videos, and a chart about figurative language including simile, metaphor, alliteration, hyperbole, anthropomorphism, and idiom.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Figurative Language

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A nine-part learning module with links to images and a video about figurative language including simile, onomatopoeia, and metaphor.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Cuban Crab Migration

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment from Nature, crabs face numerous obstacles in their migration from their forest home to the Caribbean Sea. [4:09]
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Unit Plan
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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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Figurative Language 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this three-lesson plan 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...
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Deploying Style Effectively

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan focuses on rhetorical devices and how to use them effectively in public speaking. These include alliteration, antithesis, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, personification, repetition and parallelism, and simile and metaphor.
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Lesson Plan
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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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: How to Make Poetry

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
Students learn how to write poetry through ten Writing Workshop mini-lessons. Students complete the graphic organizers provided while learning to notice details, write similes and metaphors, and create patterns in their writing.
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: 3rd Grade Lesson: Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan 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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