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".

An onomatopoeia is a word that imitates the sound it's describing. Search through this word search to find each comic book onomatopoeia!

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Similes with Linking Words.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Similes with Linking Words.

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!

Learners will practice identifying and decoding figurative language as they read and decipher five practice sentences.

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.

Students will learn to identify onomatopoeia using a word bank and context clues.

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

Become as clever as a fox as you learn to identify and interpret similes and metaphors!

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

In this worksheet, children will read five sentences, underlining the word that is an example of onomatopoeia.

Search this puzzle for onomatopoeias of animal sounds in other languages! How do they compare to the onomatopoeias you know?

Students will learn to identify personification using nouns and verbs as signal words!

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

These similes got mixed up! With this simile worksheet, students will choose from a selection of words to complete the scrambled similes.

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

Metaphors are imaginative ways to describe something by comparing that thing to something else. With this worksheet, students will write a metaphor for each pair of given words.

Oxymorons are seriously fun business! Your fifth graders will have fun making oxymorons by matching contradictory words, as well as crafting unique sentences as they practice using these antithetical phrases in their writing.

Use this activity to help students find and decipher metaphors in the context of short passages. Students will read the passages, record what is being compared in each, and then seek to explain the metaphors' meanings in their own words.

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 play with words as they explore a variety of oxymorons in this fun worksheet. As kids identify these contradictory terms and integrate them into sentences, they’ll see how figurative language can add humor and intrigue to their writing

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!

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

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.

Challenge your students to find the definitions of each homograph that give these puns their double meaning.

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

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