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Common Core Figurative Language Resources : Page 5

Having fun with words and sounds! Extend your students’ experience with onomatopoeia by giving them words to sort and asking them to identify how an author could use specific words in their writing.

All Kinds of Sounds

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Valentine&#39;s Day-themed similes!

Figurative Language Maze: Valentine's Day Similes

If your students need more practice with onomatopoeia, this worksheet will provide them with examples of common animal sounds and related contexts.

Sounds Like an Animal!

Have a laugh (or a groan) with this fun figurative language worksheet all about puns!

Puns in Context

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.

Assonance and Consonance

When your students read this exaggerated tale, they will find a ton of hyperboles!

The Day I Saved the World!

Help Muggo sort metaphors in this categorization game.

Sorting Metaphors

In this fun worksheet, students will get to practice using both homophones and homonyms as they identify and write puns!

Puzzling Puns

Challenge your students to find the definitions of each homograph that give these puns their double meaning.

Puns with Homographs

This exercise will get your students inferring the meaning of unknown metaphors.

Making Sense of Figurative Language 3

Explore figurative language and common expressions in this fifth-grade reading and writing game!

Dino Photoshoot: Figurative Language in Sentences

Get ready for some serious fun! Your students will be amused as they learn to identify oxymorons in sentences. Then, they will write their own.

Seriously Funny Oxymorons

Are you so hungry you could eat a horse? Your students will have fun identifying the examples of  hyperbole and idioms in this worksheet.

Expressions Explained

Kids categorize similes by emotions, actions, and appearances.

Muggo's Brain: Sorting Similes

Students will learn common animal sound words in different languages!

Animal Sounds Around the World

Use this activity to help students find and decipher metaphors in the context of short passages. Students will read the passages, record what is being compared in each, and then seek to explain the metaphors' meanings in their own words.

Metaphors in Context

In this worksheet, children read Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale The Snowdrop, reimagined here as a drama.

A Retelling of Han Christian Andersen's The Snowdrop

In this exercise, students will use linking verbs to write metaphors with support.

Writing Metaphors with Linking Verbs

Support students&rsquo; comprehension and analysis of S.E. Hinton&rsquo;s novel <em>The Outsiders </em>with these discussion questions for chapters 9-12.

Novel Study: The Outsiders: Discussion Guide #3

Use this discussion guide to support students&rsquo; comprehension and analysis of chapters 5&ndash;8 of S.E. Hinton&rsquo;s novel<em> The Outsiders.</em>

Novel Study: The Outsiders: Discussion Guide #2

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

Writing Similes with Linking Words

Children will love coming up with creative drawings that depict common idioms literally in this engaging grammar worksheet.

What Is an Idiom?

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

Identify the Idiom

Alliteration is a type of figurative language that is often used to engage a reader’s senses. Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration in context.

Figurative Language: Alliteration in Context

In this worksheet, students will read Carl Sandburg's poem "Fog," then analyze the poem for figurative language.

Metaphors in Poetry

EL students will read similes and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

Reading & Understanding Similes

Challenge your students to use what they know about idioms to find the double meaning in these silly puns. They will ‘get a kick’ out of it!

Puns with Idioms

Engage your students with food puns to excite their appetites and brains!

Fun with Food Puns #1

Use these wacky sentences to help your students recognize alliteration as they read.

Wacky Alliteration

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Idioms.

Glossary: Idioms

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