Spark your thinking!

1. Set up your language arts mini spark recording page: #62: Literary Device Lesson-Simile

2. What is a Simile? The official definition of a simile is a noun that means: “a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.”

3. Watch this word girl video.

3. Look at the Simile list below. Come up with a scenario for each one and write it on your recording page.

Example: as sly as a fox

Hillary was (whisper as sly as a fox) , as she to gingerly placed the fruit bat into her backpack.

• Easy as ABC
• Like two peas in a pod
• Straight as an arrow
• Wise as an owl

6.  Watch and listen to the book, “My Dog Is As Smelly As Dirty Socks”.

7. Write a “Simile Me”.

• First, jot down five words you would use to describe yourself.
• Use your five words and make comparisons to something else, writing your own version of a “Simile Me”

Here is my example:

1 – busy                                                                                                                                 

2 – creative

3 – hardworking

4 – happy

5 – sleepy

I’m as busy as a timer,

As creative as a stained glass window,

As hardworking as an elephant,

As happy as a well-loved dog,

And as sleepy as a pillow.

8. Use an app of your choice to create a fun illustration/visual of your “Simile Me”

9. Share your language arts mini spark recording page and your final project with your teacher/EY coordinator.