Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Similes with Linking Words.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Similes with Linking Words.

Ooh, onomatopoeia! This is a word that mimics a sound: like the "slurp" of spaghetti, a dog's "woof", or comic book sounds like "crash", "bam" and "bang".

Learners will practice identifying and decoding figurative language as they read and decipher five practice sentences.

Your students will have fun identifying the homophones in these hilarious puns!

Middle school students will uncover the blueprints of every legendary tale as they learn, identify, and draw symbols for six different plot archetypes!

Middle school students will become masters at decoding characters in their favorite stories after they complete this activity!

What do you call a pig that does karate? A pork chop! This figurative language worksheet gives your students a chance to create art to represent puns. Kids will have fun reading the puns and making their own illustrations to accompany them!

Clap, splash, and zoom with this onomatopoeia crossword puzzle tailored for fourth and fifth graders!

Children will practice bringing excitement to their writing in this fun figurative language worksheet.

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

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.

This grammar worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of figurative language in context, including similes, metaphors, idioms, and personification.

Become as clever as a fox as you learn to identify and interpret similes and metaphors!

Use context clues to guess the meaning of idioms in this figurative language worksheet!

It's time to change boring to extraordinary with hyperbole magic! Your fifth graders will enjoy rewriting simple statements using hyperbole to exaggerate. Once they finish, they will be the smartest students in the world.

Your students will infer the meaning of unknown figurative language examples by using context clues.

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

Students will learn to identify personification using nouns and verbs as signal words!

Children practice identifying and interpreting one type of figurative language, similes, in nine sample sentences.

BOOM! This worksheet is full of all kinds of sound-based words, from creaks to squeaks.

These similes got mixed up! With this simile worksheet, students will choose from a selection of words to complete the scrambled similes.

How is a grapefruit like a moon? They are both round! Students will identify which items are being compared in a metaphor, then describe one way they are alike.