Do you want to motivate and engage your students when reviewing similes and metaphors? Do your students struggle to create descriptive figurative language? Then download this no prep Similes and Metaphors Activity! Well suited for the Language Arts or ELL classroom, your students will have so much fun with these dice games that they will forget they are learning!

In this game, students roll a die and find the corresponding instructions. Then, they create their own sentences using similes or metaphors. The first one to complete a row or column wins the game! This activity can be played virtually or in class as virtual dice are included. The best part? These game boards can be used repeatedly as every game is unique. Print and laminate the gameboards and you can reuse this for years.

✔This resource includes:

• Instructions
• Google docs digital/online gameboard (with a link to a digital single die roller on Youtube)
• Printable in-class game board (you will need an individual die for each group)
• 27 unique questions (and 3 “Take A Break” spots)
• ‘Answer Sheet’ for students to write their sentences
• Terms of Use

✔Examples:

• Write a simile using a color
• Write a metaphor about the weather
• Finish this metaphor: “Today, school was….”
• Finish this simile: “The test was…..”

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Are you looking to make reviewing figurative language fun? Do you want to engage and motivate your students in their writing? Then download this no prep Alliteration, Onomatopoeia, Similes, and Metaphors Activity! With this individual or team-building dice game, your students will be having so much fun they will forget they are learning!

To play, students roll a die and find the corresponding instructions. Then, they create their own sentences using figurative language! The first student to complete a row or column wins the game! Can be played virtually or in-class. Virtual dice included! These game boards can be used repeatedly as every game is unique. Print and laminate the gameboards and you can reuse this for years.

✔This resource includes:

• Instructions
• Google docs digital/online gameboard (with a link to a digital single die roller on Youtube)
• Printable in-class game board (you will need an individual die for each group)
• 27 unique questions (and 3 “Take A Break” spots)
• ‘Answer Sheet’ for students to write their sentences
• Terms of Use

✔Examples:

• Write a sentence about a bird using onomatopoeia
• Write an alliteration about school using “R”
• Write a simile about a party
• Write a metaphor about your hobby

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• Dice Games Onomatopoeia Oxymoron Personification Alliteration Hyperbole
• BUNDLE Dice Games Figurative Language onomatopoeia oxymoron personification
• SIMILES Choice Board, Student Checklist, Rubric, 48 Similes w/ definitions
• METAPHORS Choice Board, Checklist, Rubric, Metaphors w definition
• Homophones Choice Board 
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Grammar:

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• KaBOOM Grammar Games - Irregular Plural Nouns by A World to Explore Store
• KaBOOM! Virtual GRAMMAR Game #1 - Irregular Past Tense Verbs
• KaBOOM! Virtual GRAMMAR Game #2 - Irregular Past Tense Verbs
• Rock, Paper, Scissors - Grammar Games! Irregular Past Tense Verbs
• Rock, Paper, Scissors Grammar Games Irregular Plural Nouns