Metaphors Learning

Number of Activities:
5 adapted activities, including sentence completion, multiple choice, song interpretation, reading, and creative writing.

Target Audience:
Students with difficulties in reading, abstraction, and text interpretation. Recommended for Middle School (7th to 9th grades) and High School. Also suitable for students with mild to moderate Intellectual Disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), ADHD, Down Syndrome, Dyslexia, Apraxia, and students in the literacy process.

Format:
Printable PDF in color, featuring illustrated examples, song excerpts, simplified instructions, visual activities, and an included answer key.

Objective:
To support the understanding of metaphors, helping students distinguish between literal and figurative meanings through concrete comparisons and familiar situations, making figurative language more accessible and meaningful.

Content:

• Themes: Figures of speech, metaphor, and figurative meaning.

• Methodology: Short, visually supported activities with song excerpts (“Flor e o Beija-Flor”), everyday phrases, and an original poem to complete.

• Exercises: Completing metaphors, circling figurative expressions, identifying implied meanings, interpreting sentences, and filling in blanks in a poem.

Highlights:
✅ Playful and inclusive resource for teaching Portuguese Language.
✅ Connects theory and practice through songs and everyday comparisons.
✅ Simple language and visual support that reduce abstraction.
✅ Encourages interpretation, creativity, and personal expression.
✅ Saves teachers 4h28min of preparation time.