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1st - 4th Grade Figurative Language Resources : Page 2

Introduce your students to some common English idioms and their meanings.

Idioms: Picture This!

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

Having Fun with Hyperbole

Kids complete sentences with idioms in this worksheet.

Making Sense of Idioms

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

Making Sense of Figurative Language 1

Use this worksheet to review figurative language! Students will write what they think each idiom on this worksheet means.

Idioms: Tell Us What You Think!

Sort similes as emotions, actions, or appearances.

Sorting Similes

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

Making Sense of Figurative Language 2

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Figurative Language.

Glossary: Figurative Language

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

Idioms: Explaining Literal and Nonliteral Language

Help your students understand figurative language as they practice identifying homonyms!

Fun with Puns

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

Help your students identify if alliteration is used in these funny sentences!

Is It Alliteration?

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

Introduce your students to vocabulary words that will strengthen their descriptive writing!

Vocabulary Builder: Descriptive Words

Use this worksheet to teach your students to write compound sentences with the support of sentence frames as they differentiate between literal and nonliteral meanings of idioms. Don’t forget the context clues!

Literal and Nonliteral Language

After introducing similes, give kids a chance to be creative with this writing activity! Students will have fun comparing all kinds of things of their choosing using the prompts, and you'll love watching them use and grow their figurative language skills.

Write Your Own Similes

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

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

Mixed-Up Idioms

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.

All Kinds of Sounds

If your students need more practice with onomatopoeia, this worksheet will provide them with examples of common animal sounds and related contexts.

Sounds Like an Animal!

Help Muggo sort metaphors in this categorization game.

Sorting Metaphors

In this fun worksheet, students will get to practice using both homophones and homonyms as they identify and write puns!

Puzzling Puns

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

Making Sense of Figurative Language 3

Are you so hungry you could eat a horse? Your students will have fun identifying the examples of  hyperbole and idioms in this worksheet.

Expressions Explained

Kids categorize similes by emotions, actions, and appearances.

Muggo's Brain: Sorting Similes

Students will learn common animal sound words in different languages!

Animal Sounds Around the World

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.

Metaphors in Context

In this exercise, students will use linking verbs to write metaphors with support.

Writing Metaphors with Linking Verbs

Children will love coming up with creative drawings that depict common idioms literally in this engaging grammar worksheet.

What Is an Idiom?

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

Identify the Idiom

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