Metaphors ELA Passages Writing Activities 5th 6th 7th Grade Figurative Language
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Add to cartLooking for metaphor worksheets and activities that go beyond simply identifying comparisons? This comprehensive metaphors figurative language unit helps students in 5th, 6th, and 7th grade identify, interpret, analyze, and create metaphors through engaging reading passages, poetry analysis, author's craft activities, and descriptive writing tasks.
Students progress from understanding basic metaphors to exploring how authors use comparisons to communicate imagery, emotions, abstract ideas, connotations, and deeper meaning. They also investigate extended metaphors and learn how different comparisons can completely change a reader's understanding of the same idea.
Perfect for upper elementary and middle school ELA, this resource combines figurative language practice, reading comprehension, literary analysis, and creative writing in one structured metaphor unit.
What's included:
✓ 20 student activity pages
✓ Fiction and non-fiction reading passages
✓ Original poetry
✓ Reading comprehension questions
✓ Metaphor and figurative language analysis
✓ Extended metaphor activities
✓ Author's craft activities
✓ Descriptive and creative writing
✓ Teacher reference page
✓ Answer key with suggested responses
Students will practise:
✓ identifying metaphors
✓ distinguishing metaphor, simile, and literal language
✓ identifying the two things being compared
✓ determining shared qualities
✓ interpreting metaphorical meaning in context
✓ analysing figurative language in reading passages
✓ understanding abstract metaphors
✓ analysing imagery and emotion
✓ exploring connotations
✓ analysing author's craft and word choice
✓ understanding extended metaphor
✓ analysing metaphor in poetry
✓ reading comprehension
✓ evaluating the effectiveness of comparisons
✓ comparing literal and figurative descriptions
✓ creating purposeful metaphors
✓ descriptive and creative writing
✓ explaining and justifying language choices
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“This is a great resource to help with test prep and figurative language.”
“This was great to practice metaphors with my class. They have to do a lot of work with figurative language and understanding metaphors can be tricky. So thank you for this product.”
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