Call students' attention to the items being compared. Have students mimic with body movements and so on. Call their attention to the two items being compared. Possible answers: He ate every bit of his food.
He made funny noises while he ate all of his food. Metaphor printable worksheet activities. The sky is low, the clouds are mean, A travelling flake of snow Across a barn or through a rut Debates if it will go. A narrow wind complains all day How someone treated him; Nature, like us, is sometimes caught Without her diadem.
Poet's corner — Emily Dickinson. Let the rain kiss you Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops Let the rain sing you a lullaby The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk The rain makes running pools in the gutter The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain. Our house is an old friend of ours. Although he creaks and groans with every gust of wind, he never fails to protect us from the elements.
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For example: The trees sighed and moaned in the wind. Idiom — An idiom is an expression peculiar to a language that cannot be taken literally. Activity 1: Similes This activity can be done as a prewriting planning strategy in a guided whole-class setting interactive whiteboard [IWB] or display board or in small groups by students using a blank page.
Select a passage to read out loud. Involve students in matching the description of the characters to their images. After matching the descriptions and comparing the character representations introduce the word 'like'. I noticed that you were using the word 'like' in your descriptions when you were comparing your characters. Discuss how characters' physical and emotional descriptions can be like other things.
Give examples of similes in each category below and ask students to provide other examples: How it feels compared to how something else feels: His skin was as slippery as plastic. Her skin was like satin. How it looks compared to how something else looks: His hair was as spiky as toothbrush bristles.
His hands were wrinkled like prunes. We describe something in the same way as we would describe a person. For example, mad ocean of fair sun.
The latter is when we give human traits to nonhuman phenomena in a more literal way. Check out our worksheet bundle to get more ideas about personification. Alliteration is yet another figure of speech that would be easy for kids to recognize. The spelling is not really important and can be different as long as the words sound the same. We use it because it links words and it creates a pleasant, rhythmic effect. Hyperbole, like the name suggests, is a figurative language that we use when we want to exaggerate something to make a point.
While teaching hyperbole or other types of figurative language to kids, make sure to make parallels with the other figures of speech that kids have learned already. These direct comparisons of two or more figures of speech in one example will remarkably help kids to make the connection between these literary styles and recognize them more easily.
We left metaphor for last, although probably the most widely used, given that it can be a bit tricky for kids to understand since the comparison between words is implicitly made, unlike with simile.
So, metaphor is when we describe something as if it was something else. Kids might confuse this example with hyperbole, which is understandable as it seems like we exaggerate how much he knows.
Practice with a lot of examples to make sure kids get an intuition on these things. Of course, if your child is already mastering these basic forms of figurative language, you can also check out our extensive collection of worksheets and lesson plans in the English Language Arts ELA section and find more advanced topics like Dramatic , Situational , Verbal Irony as well as Irony in general , Poetry , Paradox , and many others.
Just to make things crystal clear, the reasoning behind the five types of figurative language that we recommend as excellent starters is supported by research. This tells us that teachers and homeschooling parents can start introducing the more basic concepts of figurative language at eight years of age and slowly advance as their reading comprehension improves. When it comes to the difficulty of the different types of figurative language, researchers found that irony, followed by hyperbole, understatement, and sarcasm were the most difficult ones to grasp.
This is why simile, personification, and symbolism are great starting points for teaching figurative language to kids. Kids are exposed to poetry before they start to learn. Poetry is also memorable which means the learned stuff about figurative language will also be remembered if associated with their beloved rhymes. Shakespeare is probably the best author from which children can learn figurative language.
He uses a lot, if not all the types of figurative language in his work. Using resources specially designed to help kids excel the figurative language is the smart way to go, especially in the beginning. Moreover, for each type of figurative language and literary device, we have additional worksheet bundles that you can find in our ELA section. This fact will also increase their motivation and provoke them to think about a familiar thing in a different way.
Finally, once kids overcome the first milestone in learning a figurative language, recognizing different types of figurative language, is time to master their second milestone — using the figurative language when communicating. This can be done through creative writing on different topics. Children should learn how figurative language can enrich their dialog and allow them to better express their emotions by writing on topics that are in their interest.
In terms of when , we provided evidence concerning the best age to start teaching figurative language for kids. Finally, we incorporated some tips and a lot of teaching resources on how to teach figurative language for kids.
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On the right-hand side of each section, there is a carefully crafted story that uses each of the specific types of figurative language. All five of the stories go together to tell one long tale. Students should complete the entire resource over the course of several days. Finally, I had the kids sit in a circle and we passed figurative language review task cards around the circle.
Two kids shared theirs, explained what they thought the simile or metaphor meant, passed their cards down two spaces, and then got new cards. It was a fun, fast way to do a little bit more review. The cards also have another set that doesn't have the figurative language underlined, which is actually the set we used!
If you need more figurative language resources, the review task cards are also included in this larger Simile and Metaphors Activity Pack. If you're like me and can never have enough task cards, students also love the personification , onomatopoeia , or hyperbole task card sets!
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