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

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Halloween-themed metaphors!

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

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Halloween-themed similes!

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.

This is a hilarious worksheet for students to dive into as they hone their figurative language skills! Young wordsmiths will practice identifying the differences between homonyms and homophones as they analyze puns.

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.

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!

Have your learners practice identifying hyperboles with this fun figurative language maze.

Use this worksheet to teach your students to write compound sentences with the support of sentence frames as they differentiate between literal and nonliteral meanings of idioms. Don’t forget the context clues!

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

Give kids a chance to think creatively about metaphors by letting them write their own! Students will stretch their imaginations and figurative language skills as they think of ways to describe their class, bedroom, and more.

Students will learn to identify onomatopoeia using a word bank and context clues.

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

With this worksheet, your students practice and identifying and writing hyperboles.

In this grammar worksheet, learners will enjoy writing what each idiom means figuratively, then drawing a picture to illustrate its meaning.

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

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.

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

Metaphors are imaginative ways to describe something by comparing that thing to something else. With this worksheet, students will write a metaphor for each pair of given words.

Successful students set sail with alliteration! Use this resource with your students to practice writing sentences using alliteration.

Help your students practice identifying and writing alliterative sentences

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

Get plenty of practice with alliteration by identifying and creating alliterative sentences.

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

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

Have some fun with the alphabet as you learn all about alliteration! Create an alliteration for every letter of the alphabet.

Teach your students about contradictory phrases that go by the funny sounding name of "oxymoron." After your students match two words together to make oxymorons, they’ll write their own creative sentences using this fun figurative language