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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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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
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Literary Text: Imagery, Metaphor, and Simile

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Writers use sensory imagery ("smelled the salty air"), similes ("like a strong man playing tug-of-war"), and metaphors ("the waves roaring in my ears") to capture the reader's imagination. In this lesson, you will learn how to identify...
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Moon Phaser [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th Standards
In this activity, 4th graders will study the moon for a period of one month and learn to identify each major moon phase. They will then describe the moon through poems, haikus, and similes.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: 6.1 Writing About Literature: Analyzing Prose

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn to analyze prose by understanding connotation and denotation, identifying metaphors and similes, looking for repetition, and finding imagery in a text.
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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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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Go Figure With Figurative Language It Helps With Predicting!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
In this lesson, students will use figurative language, digital tools, and illustrations to write a story. The teacher will model how to use an app that has onomatopoeia to create a story with a good beginning, middle, and end. A video...
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British Library

British Library: 'Goblin Market' by Christina Rossetti

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In 'Goblin Market', Rossetti employs imagery to explore Victorian debates around sin and temptation. Students will explore these techniques and apply them to their own work.
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Handout
abcteach

Abcteach: Valentine's Day Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] How do you plan on celebrating Valentine's Day in your classroom? This resource provides links to activities and information that will aid you in your planning. This site features crossword puzzle, math...
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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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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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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Literary Terms Lesson Plan

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
This is a lesson plan for teaching the seven literary terms used in poetry: simile, metaphor, alliteration, imagery, hyperbole, personification, and onomatopoeia.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Serendipitous Simile Generator for Stories

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
With this writing prompt generator, students will create similes that inspire an original story or a description.
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Interactive
English Club

English Club: Vocabulary: Cloze Games: Animals Cloze 9

For Students 6th - 8th
Choose from a word bank to complete ten sentences that use animal similes. Hints are available if needed, and a percentage score is displayed once answers are submitted.
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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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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Matching: Literary Devices

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This matching game has students match examples of literary devices (yellow boxes) with the terms (blue boxes). There are multiples of each, but each set is matched to a specific box. Java is required.
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Read Works

Read Works: Figurative Language

For Students K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site contains a collection of passage that include figurative language lessons. Each lesson includes questions to assess student understanding.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Sahara Special" by Esme Raji Codell

For Students 5th - 8th
Selected (8) reading passages (grades 5-8) to pair with "Sahara Special" by Esme Raji Codell. Sahara Special is the story of Sahara Jones's 5th grade school year and the struggles she overcomes to make friends and reach her potential as...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Art of the Metaphor

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
How do metaphors help us better understand the world? What makes a good metaphor? Explore these questions in this video with writers like Langston Hughes and Carl Sandburg, who have mastered the art of bringing a scene or emotion to...
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Other

Daily Grammar: Glossary of Grammar Terms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A succinct overview of basic grammar terms with links to lessons; written by a high school English teacher.
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Quia

Quia: List of Literary Terms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A list of 28 literary terms with brief, clear definitions. "Nonfiction," is the last term in the list.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Analyzing Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use poetic devices to analyze a poem of their choice from the Library of Congress.

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