This track guides students through a series of lessons and activities to help in their understanding and use of figurative language. My students were experiencing a learning gap in identifying and interpreting figurative language. On a Knox County reading test 47% of the students had to be retaught/retested in the skill figurative language. The Tn Frameworks, 3-5 grade cluster, states that students will identify and interpret figurative language. This unit will help students gain a knowledge of similes and metaphors while increasing their appreciation of poetry. It does this through interpreting and writing similes and metaphors. After practicing interpreting similes and metaphors, the students will have an opportunity to demonstrate this skill by composing their own similes and metaphors. In the survey item #12 students are asked if they use what they know about this topic in other school subjects. They may choose a person we have studied in social studies , then write similes and metaphors. T