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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.

All About Metaphors

Help kids learn about similes with this sorting game.

Sorting Similes in Muggo's Brain

Students will learn about the history of hyperbole in literature and politics.

Hyperboles in History

Use this awfully good worksheet about using an oxymoron to inspire creative writing.

Obvious Oxymoron

Learn all about the history of candles with this two-page nonfiction reading worksheet!

Informational Reading Comprehension: History of the Candle

Once students get underway with this Education.com exercise, learning about similes is easy as pie.


Similes 1

Help students learn how to categorize objects with this exercise that educates them about oxymorons.


Oxymoron

Learners gain familiarity with common expressions in this fun game all about figurative language!

Dino Bones: Understanding Idioms

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

Puns in Context

Your little poets will love how their creative writing abilities will grow with this lesson about similes and metaphors. Students engage in fun activities to learn about similes and metaphors and write comparisons as directed.

Similes and Metaphors: Comparisons Done Right

Young writers will work with animal metaphors as they plan and craft a poem about someone they know.

Make an Animal Metaphor

Your kids will have fun learning about hyperbole and writing some of their own exaggerations along the way!

Having Fun with Hyperbole

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

Alphabet Alliteration

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

Examples of Similes

Encourage creativity and critical thinking about the characters in <em>The Hunger Games</em> with this artistic extension activity!

Novel Study: The Hunger Games: Character Archetype Trading Cards

Get students thinking critically and creatively about character archetypes in the novels they&rsquo;re reading with this engaging reading activity!

Character Archetype Trading Cards

Challenge your students to use what they know about idioms to find the double meaning in these silly puns. They will ‘get a kick’ out of it!

Puns with Idioms

Read and answer comprehension questions about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow&#39;s classic narrative poem &quot;Paul Revere&rsquo;s Ride.&quot;

Analyzing Poetry: “Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The reading and writing practice in this workbook will get kids thinking about all the different parts that go into a good story, like vocabulary, structure and sequencing.

Reading Skills: Sentences to Stories

Hone reading comprehension and analysis skills with this worksheet featuring a French fairy tale about a prince, a curse, and the importance of recognizing one&#39;s own flaws.

Extended Reading Comprehension: Excerpt Adapted From “Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess”

In this reading and writing worksheet about the poem “A Nation’s Strength” by William Ralph Emerson, students will use their understanding of figurative language to identify and define metaphors and difficult vocabulary.

A Nation’s Strength

After finishing Mildred D. Taylor&rsquo;s <em>Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry</em>, give students a chance to think about the significance of the symbols used in the novel.

Novel Study: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Exploring Symbols

Give kids a chance to think creatively about metaphors by letting them write their own! Students will stretch their imaginations and figurative language skills as they think of ways to describe their class, bedroom, and more.

Write Your Own Metaphors

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?

The Twisted Ankle

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 tool.

Make a Match with Oxymorons

Help your ELs learn about alliteration and practice identifying the descriptive adjectives and nouns that make up alliterative sentences. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support to the lesson Analyzing Alliteration.

Making Alliteration Accessible

Teach your students about hyperbole using music! First, let them practice interpreting hyperboles. Then, play a song (or provide lyrics) and invite them to listen for an example of hyperbole.

Hip-Hop Hyperboles

Strengthen your students' understanding of figurative language by helping them interpret visual puns! Students will use a webpage to help them understand puns in their future reading and writing endeavors.

Pun Visuals

Read and analyze an excerpt adapted from &ldquo;The Wreck of the Golden Mary&rdquo; by Charles Dickens with this reading comprehension worksheet!

Reading Comprehension: Excerpt Adapted From The Wreck of the Golden Mary

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

Personification: Bring Your Writing to Life

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