Similes & Metaphors – Year 5
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Description
Teach similes and metaphors through a clear sequence that moves from recognition to interpretation, purposeful creation and revision. Students identify the two unlike things being compared, name the shared quality, explain the image or feeling created, distinguish similes from metaphors in context, improve tired comparisons and write original examples suited to a detail and tone.
The 31-page A4 unit plan and resource pack combines colour display, sorting, matching and game materials with low-ink black-and-white worksheets, passage analysis, differentiated writing practice, assessment and a five-level rubric. Ten answer or sample-response pages sit immediately after the matching student task for straightforward teaching and marking.
A 16-slide editable PowerPoint presentation provides the explicit teaching sequence. A 22-slide editable quiz supplies ten mixed question-and-answer pairs. The 69-page combined Preview includes the clean Table of Contents, protected resource pages, and protected presentation and quiz slides.
What’s Included
Similes & Metaphors editable presentation — 16 native-text PowerPoint slides.
Similes & Metaphors editable quiz — 22 native-text PowerPoint slides with 10 question-and-answer pairs.
31-page A4 Unit Plan PDF with clean Table of Contents and 30 resource pages.
Display and Reference Cards — 2 colour pages: whole-class poster and four student reference cards.
Comparison Sorting Lab — 2 colour pages: 12 sentence cards and a sorting-and-explanation mat.
Figurative Language Match-Up — 3 colour card pages for simile, metaphor and mixed-effects matching.
Roll, Compare & Create — 2 colour pages: dice prompt board and six-round recording/peer-check sheet.
Spot the Comparison — 1 worksheet and 1 matching answer page.
Simile Builder — 2 differentiated practice pages and 2 matching answer pages.
Metaphor Maker — 2 differentiated practice pages and 2 matching answer pages.
Meaning in Context — 2 passage-and-analysis pages and 2 matching answer pages.
Revise and Enrich — 1 writing/revision page and 1 sample-answer page.
Figurative Language Assessment — 2 student pages and 2 answer/sample-response pages.
Similes & Metaphors — Year 5 Rubric — 1 A4 landscape five-level marking rubric.
69-page combined Preview PDF.
Learning Focus
Recognise similes and metaphors through structure and meaning.
Identify the two unlike things being compared.
Name the precise shared quality that makes a comparison work.
Explain imagery, feeling, mood and emphasis.
Interpret figurative language in short reading passages.
Create original comparisons that suit purpose and tone.
Revise literal or familiar wording for clarity and effect.
Classroom Use
Use the presentation for whole-class modelling, then choose from reference cards, sorting, matching and dice-based practice for guided or collaborative learning. The differentiated worksheets support independent practice, reading response and writing development. Finish with the editable quiz, the two-part assessment and the five-level rubric. The complete sequence is suited to approximately five lessons plus assessment, and individual resources can also be used separately for revision, literacy rotations, homework or intervention.
Year, Subject and Topic
Year level: Year 5
Subject: English
Topic: Similes, metaphors and figurative language
Curriculum Alignment
Australian Curriculum v9.0
AC9E5LE04; AC9E5LE05
Australian Curriculum v8.4
ACELT1611; ACELT1612; ACELT1798
Victorian Curriculum 2.0
VC2E5LE04; VC2E5LE05
New South Wales English K–10
EN3-OLC-01; EN3-VOCAB-01; EN3-UARL-01; EN3-UARL-02; EN3-CWT-01; EN3-SPELL-01; EN3-HANDW-01; EN3-HANDW-02
Western Australian Curriculum
WA5ELIEX2; WA5ELICR1
Common Core State Standards — English Language Arts
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.4; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.5; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.7; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.4; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.5; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.7; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.5; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.5.a; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.5.b; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.10; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3.d; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3.b; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.5; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.2.e; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3.e; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.6; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.8; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.9.a; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.10
United Kingdom — Upper Key Stage 2 English
UK-UKS2-ENG-R-C; UK-UKS2-ENG-W-V; UK-UKS2-ENG-W-C
New Zealand Curriculum — English
NZ-Y5-ENG-W-WC-LFD-1; NZ-Y6-ENG-W-WC-LFD-1; NZ-Y5-ENG-W-C-WTE-1; NZ-Y6-ENG-W-C-WTE-1
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills — English Language Arts and Reading
TEKS-ELAR-G5-8A; TEKS-ELAR-G5-3D; TEKS-ELAR-G5-6D; TEKS-ELAR-G5-8; TEKS-ELAR-G5-8B; TEKS-ELAR-G5-8C; TEKS-ELAR-G5-9B; TEKS-ELAR-G5-10; TEKS-ELAR-G5-10D; TEKS-ELAR-G5-10G; TEKS-ELAR-G5-12A; TEKS-ELAR-G5-11A; TEKS-ELAR-G5-11B; TEKS-ELAR-G5-9A; TEKS-ELAR-G5-9C; TEKS-ELAR-G5-10F; TEKS-ELAR-G5-12
Ontario Curriculum — Language
CAN-G5-LANG-C1.5; CAN-G5-LANG-C3.1; CAN-G5-LANG-C3.4; CAN-G5-LANG-D1.1; CAN-G5-LANG-D1.2; CAN-G5-LANG-D1.3; CAN-G5-LANG-D1.4; CAN-G5-LANG-D1.5; CAN-G6-LANG-D1.5; CAN-G5-LANG-D2.1; CAN-G5-LANG-D2.2; CAN-G5-LANG-D2.3; CAN-G5-LANG-D2.4; CAN-G5-LANG-D2.5; CAN-G5-LANG-D2.6; CAN-G5-LANG-D3.1; CAN-G5-LANG-D3.2; CAN-G5-LANG-D3.3
Formats, Page Count and Answer Status
Unit plan and resource pack: 31 A4 PDF pages.
Presentation: 16 editable PowerPoint slides.
Quiz: 22 editable PowerPoint slides.
Preview: 69 PDF pages.
Answer status: 10 interleaved answer or sample-response pages included.
Digital files: PDF and PPTX.
Teacher Benefits
A sequenced path from direct teaching to guided practice, independent application and assessment.
Multiple entry points through visual references, hands-on activities, contextual reading and writing.
Differentiated practice without crowding student response space.
Interleaved answers and sample responses for efficient checking and feedback.
Editable presentation and quiz text for classroom adaptation.
Print-friendly worksheets, assessment pages and rubric, with colour reserved for displays and activities.
Digital Product and Licence
This is a digital product; no physical item is supplied. Purchase grants the purchaser a single-classroom licence to use and print the resource with their own students. Files may not be shared, resold, redistributed, posted publicly or uploaded to a shared resource library. Copyright remains with Sukindi Learning.
