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42 Simile Examples
Writing and Reading Activities - 42 Traditional Simile Examples
- Ideal as a simile matching game plus terrific for written expression, descriptions and adjectives / nouns work...
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Adjective Simile Starters...For Printing Similes as a Group
Matching Simile Nouns Pictures / Words
Adjective Simile Starters...For Easy Printing of Individual Similes per child
List of Similes
| as brave as a lion | as brown as a berry | as black as soot |
| as blind as a bat | as busy as a bee | as cold as ice |
| as dry as a bone | as easy as a ABC | as pretty as a picture |
| as proud as a peacock | as quick as a lightning | as quiet as a mouse |
| as right as rain | as sharp as a razor | as sick as a dog |
| as silent as a grave | as smooth as glass | as fat as a pig |
| as gentle as a lamb | as good as gold | as green as grass |
| as happy as a lark | as hard as nails | as heavy as lead |
| as flat as a pancake | as fresh as a daisy | as funny as a circus |
| as large as life | as light as a feather | as loud as thunder |
| as old as Methuselah | as soft as silk | as straight as an arrow |
| as strong as an ox | as sweet as honey | as tall as a giant |
| as thick as thieves | as thin as a rake | as warm as toast |
| as weak as a kitten | as white as snow | as wise as an owl |
| PLUS As ________ as _______ FOR YOU AND YOUR STUDENTS TO WRITE YOUR OWN SIMILES | ||
42 Simile Examples
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Print and laminate a set of the simile adjective starters and the simile noun endings - children match the simile adjective with the simile noun.
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Print out class copies of individual simile adjective starters -children make up their own noun ending.
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Print out individual copies of simile starters and simile endings -children cut and paste to match.
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Brainstorm and list different nouns to match each simile adjective starter - for example as hard as....nails, rocks, ice, concrete, steel etc.
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Make a list of Adjectives and Nouns from the similes - eg. cold ice, busy bee, warm toast, white snow, loud thunder etc...
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Use different adjectives and nouns from our word cards to make up similes - eg .. as enormous as a dinosaur..
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As an extension - try adding to the similes to make descriptive full sentences - great for written expression and poetry practice - eg 'The tower was as tall as a giant.', 'The clouds were as white as snow.' 'After my bath I felt as warm as toast'
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Just focus on one simile a week and add it to the literacy group activities each week.
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