Learners use their background knowledge and sentence-based context clues to determine the meaning of more common allusions.

Learners will use their background knowledge and sentence-based context clues to determine the meaning of common allusions.

Learn about common patterns in storytelling with this middle-grade worksheet!

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

Children work with two forms of figurative language in this grammar worksheet.

These 24 cards will introduce your students to common sound words!

Introduce your students to some common English idioms and their meanings.

Introduce your students to eight common types of figurative language with this colorful exercise.

Introduce your students to these common English idioms, used in the context of a sentence.

Get ready, this activity transforms middle school students into experts at understanding and decoding characters in all their favorite stories!

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

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

Assess your students’ knowledge of the eight most common types of figurative language.

Why is the math book so sad? It has too many problems! Help your students bring puns to life by having them create visuals to represent the play on words. Kids will have a blast reading the puns and making their own illustrations to accompany them.

Use this worksheet for more practice identifying alliteration.

Determine the appropriate onomatopoeia for different situations in this engaging puzzle!

This wonderful worksheet is a great way for students to practice using alliteration!

It's time to let loose and get silly with this fun figurative language exercise! This worksheet will let your students stretch their creativity as they practice using homonyms to write their own puns.

Children work with two forms of figurative language in this grammar worksheet.

This middle school worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of allusion (mythological, biblical, literary, or historical), simile, personification, or metaphor. 

An oxymoron is a figure of speech made up of words with very different meanings. In this creative writing activity, students will put their figurative language skills to the test as they craft a story using some catchy contradictory phrases!

Students will read metaphors and identify how the two things being compared are alike.