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

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

What does "when pigs fly" mean if pigs can't really fly? Kids use context clues to learn the meanings of common idioms on this third grade reading worksheet.

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.

Use this resource with your students to practice using context clues to determine the meaning of idioms.

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

As quiet as a mouse or as quiet as a cucumber? Kids will learn the definition of a simile, then use pictures as clues to complete the similes.

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

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