Help students understand different figurative language devices with this cut & paste sorting activity.

Choose the activity variation that best suits your students’ context and ability levels. Students will sort example sentences, sort definitions and write examples, or write both the definition and example sentence in their own words.

Perfect for independent or paired work, or can be easily adapted for a small group workstation by enlarging to A3 and printing on thick cardstock for re-use.

Top Teacher Tip: this task works great as a pre-assessment!

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