Write Your Own Similes and Metaphors

Use the sentence sheets first, then read The Good Ship School aloud before students answer. Finish with the writing sheet.

Rewrite 8 plain sentences like The runner was very fast as a simile or a metaphor. A simile compares two unlike things using like or as; a metaphor says one thing is another. The directions on the page read: Read each plain sentence. Rewrite it on the lines with the kind of comparison named in the purple tag. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 6th Grade similes & metaphors, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with similes and metaphors. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Students name both, like skin and silk in as soft as silk. Similes in Sentences and Poems asks for both things in all 14 items.

The harbor stands for home after school. The ship sails into the harbor at three, when the school day ends.

It is two pages with 8 plain sentences to rewrite, each tagged simile or metaphor.