A template for students to use when learning how to write a simile poem.
Use this teaching resource when studying poetry or figurative language in your classroom.
This template has been designed to introduce students to the structure of simile poems, and to provide them with a scaffold when writing one of their own.
Recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened.
Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types.
Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.
Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.
Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
Choose words and phrases for effect.*
Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
Distinguish the literal and nonliteral meanings of words and phrases in context (e.g., take steps).
Explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose, and refer to the structural elements of poems (e.g., verse, rhythm, meter) and drama (e.g., casts of characters, settings, descriptions, dialogue, stage directions) when writing or speaking a...
Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text.
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Explain the meaning of simple similes and metaphors (e.g., as pretty as a picture) in context.
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Interpret figurative language, including similes and metaphors, in context.
Demonstrate knowledge of distinguishing characteristics of well-known children's literature such as folktales, fables, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes;
Discuss with adult assistance the author's purpose for writing text;
Discuss with adult assistance how the use of text structure contributes to the author's purpose;
Discuss with adult assistance how the author uses words that help the reader visualize; and
Dictate or compose literary texts, including personal narratives; and
Discuss the author's purpose for writing text;
Discuss how the use of text structure contributes to the author's purpose;
Discuss how the author uses words that help the reader visualize; and
Dictate or compose literary texts, including personal narratives and poetry;
Explain visual patterns and structures in a variety of poems;
Discuss the author's purpose for writing text;
Discuss how the use of text structure contributes to the author's purpose;
Discuss the use of descriptive, literal, and figurative language;
Compose literary texts, including personal narratives and poetry;
Explain rhyme scheme, sound devices, and structural elements such as stanzas in a variety of poems;
Explain the author's purpose and message within a text;
Explain how the use of text structure contributes to the author's purpose;
Describe how the author's use of imagery, literal and figurative language such as simile, and sound devices such as onomatopoeia achieves specific purposes;
Discuss how the author's use of language contributes to voice; and
Compose literary texts, including personal narratives and poetry, using genre characteristics and craft;
Explain figurative language such as simile, metaphor, and personification that the poet uses to create images;
Explain structure in drama such as character tags, acts, scenes, and stage directions;
Recognize characteristics and structures of informational text, including:
Explain the author's purpose and message within a text;
Explain how the use of text structure contributes to the author's purpose;
Describe how the author's use of imagery, literal and figurative language such as simile and metaphor, and sound devices such as alliteration and assonance achieves specific purposes;
Compose literary texts such as personal narratives and poetry using genre characteristics and craft;
Explain the use of sound devices and figurative language and distinguish between the poet and the speaker in poems across a variety of poetic forms;
Explain the author's purpose and message within a text;
Analyze how the use of text structure contributes to the author's purpose;
Describe how the author's use of imagery, literal and figurative language such as simile and metaphor, and sound devices achieves specific purposes;
Compose literary texts such as personal narratives, fiction, and poetry using genre characteristics and craft;
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