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

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

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.

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

Use this worksheet for more practice identifying alliteration.

Determine the appropriate onomatopoeia for different situations in this engaging puzzle!

Puns offer kids the chance to have fun with figurative language! Your students will giggle as they find homophones in each of these silly puns.

This wonderful worksheet is a great way for students to practice using alliteration!

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.

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

Help your students practice using two antonyms to create an oxymoron.

This middle school worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of allusion (mythological, biblical, literary, or historical), simile, personification, or metaphor. 

An oxymoron is a figure of speech made up of words with very different meanings. In this creative writing activity, students will put their figurative language skills to the test as they craft a story using some catchy contradictory phrases!

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.

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

Engage your students with eggciting wordplay and food puns!

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.

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

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.

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

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

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

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?

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