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

Discover the roadmap for your favorite stories with this middle-grade worksheet on plot archetypes!

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

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

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

Students study real examples of verbal irony, puns, personification, and allusions in context with this middle grades worksheet! 

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

Engage your students with food puns to excite their appetites and brains!

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

Learn about common patterns in storytelling with this middle-grade worksheet!

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

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

Strengthen reading comprehension and literary analysis skills with this sixth through eighth grade foreshadowing worksheet!