Help your students use homonyms to write their own puns as they practice using figurative language with this fun activity!

Use foreshadowing to guess what will happen on this train ride!

Use this worksheet to provide students with even more practice using both homophones and homonyms as they identify and write their own puns!

In this two-page worksheet, learners will use context clues to decipher the meaning of idioms used on literal and non-literal contexts.

Use this resource with your students to practice using context clues to determine the meaning of idioms.

Students will look at hilarious puns and how they use homonyms and homophones.

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

Silly sentences will have your students smiling! Use this resource with your students to practice writing silly sentences with alliteration.

Alliteration is a fun way to play with language! Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration

Take things to the extreme with this hyperbole practice sheet! Learn to use exaggeration to make your writing more descriptive.

Use this worksheet to review figurative language! Students will write what they think each idiom on this worksheet means.

Get fourth and fifth graders' creativity flowing with this personification worksheet! 

Children are introduced to Tennyson the Turtle, a reptile who likes to use metaphors and similes, in this appealing worksheet!

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.

Give your students a case of the giggles with twelve funny pun cards that use similar sounding words and phrases to create double meaning.

As quiet as a mouse or as quiet as a cucumber? Kids will learn the definition of a simile, then use pictures as clues to complete the similes.

Put all your Easter eggs in this worksheet! Help your students use the context of a sentence to discover the meaning of these Easter idioms.

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

Alliteration is a type of figurative language that is often used in poetry. Use this classic poem with your students to practice identifying alliteration in context.

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!

This worksheet will help your child understand what similes are, and she'll even get to use her imagination to write some of her own!

This worksheet is a beast! That's a metaphor, and your child will be writing their own metaphors in no time, then they can use them in a poem.

After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, students reflect on the author's use of dialogue and literary techniques to drive the story.

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.

After introducing similes, give kids a chance to be creative with this writing activity! Students will have fun comparing all kinds of things of their choosing using the prompts, and you'll love watching them use and grow their figurative language ski

What does "when pigs fly" mean if pigs can't really fly? Kids use context clues to learn the meanings of common idioms on this third grade reading worksheet.

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.