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Tight As A Drum
Similes Flex Mental Muscles
Maybe your grandma is proud as a peacock, or your mom is as quick as a wink; the perfect simile can capture a person's essence, describe a situation succinctly, and draw a comparison between two dissimilar things so that you look at them in a new way. Here's a way to make your students aware of similes, and help them to use these effective literary devices in their own lives.
1. Write the definition of a simile on the board (a simile is a comparison that uses "like" or "as").
2. Provide an example. "Fred was as busy as a bee."
3. Give each student a book or text to scan.
4. On one side students make a drawing to depict the simile. On the back, students write the simile.
5. After five minutes, conduct a sharing party where students try to guess each other's similes.
