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

Teach your students about hyperbole using music! First, let them practice interpreting hyperboles. Then, play a song (or provide lyrics) and invite them to listen for an example of hyperbole.

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.

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.

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.

Help your budding wordsmiths develop their figurative language skills with this fun pun activity! This is a great worksheet for students to practice identifying and using homophones as they work to create their very own puns!

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".

With this worksheet, your fifth graders will add feeling to their writing by using hyperbole. Hyperbole is an extreme exaggeration that adds emphasis and humor for extra effect. Once they complete this worksheet, they will be masters of hyperbole.

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!

Students will get to play with words as they explore a variety of oxymorons in this seriously fun worksheet! As kids explain the meaning of these contradictory terms, they’ll learn how figurative language can add humor and intrigue to their writing!

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.

Explore figurative language fun with this engaging worksheet!

If someone loses their glasses, are they as blind as a bee or a bat? This fill-in-the-blank worksheet introduces your child to popular similes.

Fall for figurative language with this engaging worksheet that helps students master the art of personification!

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

Introduce readers to the poem “I like to see it lap the Miles” by beloved American poet Emily Dickinson.

Learn onomatopoeia while you experience an exciting video game quest!

Predict what will happen during the championship game with this middle-grade worksheet all about foreshadowing!

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

Don’t let allusions be your white whale; master them with the help of this middle school worksheet!

Put your creative side to work with this fun writing activity!

In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying metaphors as they color in the logs that contain them.

Write an eloquent, nature-inspired personification poem with this guided worksheet for seventh graders!

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

Unmask the cast of every story with this worksheet for middle schoolers on character archetypes!

Identify irony in context in this helpful worksheet!

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