Teaching figurative language

Looking for new, free texts for teaching figurative language? This post has short stories and other short texts your students will love!

Engage your upper elementary and middle school students with this engaging PBL writing project! Dive deep into descriptive writing and figurative language as students create their own unique restaurants and craft enticing menus. Students will practice using adjectives, descriptive language and figurative language in a FUN way. Culminate the project with a 'tasting' session, where students will savor the descriptive delights of their peers' menus.

Teaching figurative language terms can be boring. So here are some engaging, hands-on figurative language activities for your class!

Use these creative assignments and activities for teaching students to locate, analyze, and evaluate the use of figurative language in text.

Are students unmotivated to learn or try figurative language? Are they bored of terms or unwilling to put pen to paper? Then you need to host your own Figurative Language Tasting! This activity will have students excitedly writing down thoughtful images while building their writing confidence. Click to learn how to create and use this lesson in your classroom! #itslitteaching #creativewriting #figurativelanguage #highschoolenglish #secondaryela

Are you struggling to engage students in creating imagery? Need a way to add some excitement around figurative language? A figurative language tasting is a no-fail way to engage students in writing while reviewing essential figurative language terms and techniques. This blog post walks you through how to do the lesson yourself step-by-step. Click and never have another student say "This is boring!" #itslitteaching #creativewriting #figurativelanguage #highschoolenglish #secondaryela

Teaching Figurative Language can be fun and meaningful for your students. Teaching figurative language through poetry can make it even better! Here are my best tips for teaching similes, metaphors, idioms, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, imagery, alliteration, and personification.

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Teaching figurative language is easy! Start with good definitions and examples, add a little practice, then apply in kids' writing.