Comparison and Metaphor Course
Elevate your teaching of figurative language with this course designed for educators of 13-16-year-olds. Master setting clear objectives, delivering engaging lesson sequences, and using practical rubrics and assessments to enable students to confidently identify, analyse, and craft compelling similes and metaphors in their writing and comprehension tasks.

flexible workload of 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This course equips educators with practical strategies to teach similes and metaphors effectively. It includes ready-to-use lesson plans for 2-3 sessions, scaffolded activities, and sentence frames suitable for diverse reading levels. Participants learn to choose age-appropriate texts, create rubrics, conduct quick assessments, and provide feedback to enhance analysis and writing skills.
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Develop skills
- Design precise learning objectives and rubrics for simile and metaphor lessons.
- Develop structured 2-3 lesson plans progressing from identification to creation of metaphors.
- Adapt activities with scaffolds for classrooms with varying student abilities.
- Choose and assess short texts abundant in comparisons for ages 13-16.
- Apply formative assessments and feedback to improve metaphor analysis skills.
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