Figurative Language Teaching Resources
Using figurative language effectively is an important skill to learn in order to make a piece of text more interesting. Figurative language devices include similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, idioms, oxymoron and hyperbole. This collection of teaching resources includes a wide variety of posters, worksheets, lesson plans and comprehension tasks to use when studying figurative language in the primary school classroom.
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Elements of Poetry Worksheet - Idioms
A worksheet to help students understand idioms in poetry.
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Elements of Poetry Worksheet - Figurative Language
A worksheet to help students understand figurative language in poetry.
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Identifying Descriptive and Figurative Language Worksheets
A set of 3 worksheets to help your students identify descriptive and figurative language in narrative texts.
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Figurative Language - Sorting Worksheet
A sorting worksheet using similes, personification, metaphors and onomatopoeia.
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Animal Alliteration Activity - Brainstorming Template
A brainstorming template to use in the classroom when learning about alliteration.
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Figurative Language Task Cards
A set of 12 task cards to practice working with figurative language.
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Figurative Language PowerPoint
An editable PowerPoint template to use when teaching figurative language.
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Farm Yard Sounds Match-Up Activity
A set of eight farm animal cards with matching animal sound cards.
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Exploring Poetry Worksheet - Imagery
A worksheet to help students understand imagery in poetry.
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Exploring Poetry Worksheet - Word Play
A worksheet to help students understand word play in poetry.
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Exploring Poetry Worksheet - Onomatopoeia
A worksheet to help students understand onomatopoeia in poetry.
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Exploring Poetry Workbook
A workbook to help students become more familiar with the genre of poetry.
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Onomatopoeia Word Wall
A set of 39 onomatopoeic vocabulary word cards.
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Interpreting Figurative Language - Comprehension Task
A task to use when teaching your students reading comprehension strategies.
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Figurative Language - Football Worksheet
A worksheet using figurative language to describe football.
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Exploring Poetry - Year 3 and Year 4 Unit Plan
This English unit addresses common poetic devices such as sound play, word play and imagery and explores how these may be applied to narrative poetry.
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Idioms
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore some commonly used idioms.
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Figurative Language
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and investigate figurative language in poetry.
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Imagery in Poetry
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore imagery in poetry.
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Word Play in Poetry
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore word play in poetry.
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Sound Play in Poetry - Onomatopoeia
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore onomatopoeia in poetry.
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Sound Play in Poetry - Alliteration
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore alliteration in poetry.
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Exploring Poetic Devices
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore the common literary devices found in poetry.
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