This worksheet is a slam dunk for metaphors! Your young writer will learn what makes up a metaphor, and then practice making a few of their own.

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

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

EL students will read similes and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Similes are all around us—sometimes you just need a little context to know how to decipher them! This lighthearted story about a twisted ankle contains two hidden similes. Can your students find them?

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.

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

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.

Middle school writers practice rewriting sentences using personification to add description and make the sentences more exciting!

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".

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

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

Practice using onomatopoeia like hiss, squeak, and boom in this fun language puzzle!

Search this puzzle for animal onomatopoeias. An onomatopoeia is a word that imitates the sound that it's describing. These words are sounds made by animals!

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!

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

Are you as quick as lightning? Learn about similes with this fun activity. Pick a simile and draw a picture to represent it.