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1st - 5th Grade Figurative Language Resources : Page 4

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

Puns with Homographs

Students will learn common animal sound words in different languages!

Animal Sounds Around the World

Use these wacky sentences to help your students recognize alliteration as they read.

Wacky Alliteration

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

Practice Onomatopoeia!

Engage your students with food puns to excite their appetites and brains!

Fun with Food Puns #1

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Idioms.

Glossary: Idioms

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

Is It Alliteration?

This worksheet is a beast! That's a metaphor, and your child will be writing their own metaphors in no time, then they can use them in a poem.

Animal Metaphors

In this worksheet, students will read Carl Sandburg's poem "Fog," then analyze the poem for figurative language.

Metaphors in Poetry

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!

When your students read this silly poem, they will find examples of hyperbole. Then, they will make a connection to another language concept: superlatives!

More Hyperbole in Poetry

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

Making Sense of Figurative Language 3

Help your students use homonyms to write their own puns as they practice using figurative language with this fun activity!

Create a Pun

As students begin to read more sophisticated texts, understanding how authors use figurative language becomes critical. In this unit, students will revisit some of the figurative language they learned in fourth grade and also study some new ones too, including onomatopoeia, hyperbole, puns and oxymorons. Analyzing how figurative language is used in texts will help readers apply what they have learned.

Figurative Language

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

Assonance and Consonance

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

Play on Words

Kids categorize similes by emotions, actions, and appearances.

Muggo's Brain: Sorting Similes

Your mind will burst with knowledge after completing this hyperbole activity! Turn normal skills and traits into lager-than-life abilities using exaggeration.

Hyperbole

When your students read this exaggerated tale, they will find a ton of hyperboles!

The Day I Saved the World!

Put all your Easter eggs in this worksheet! Help your students use the context of a sentence to discover the meaning of these Easter idioms.

Easy Easter Idioms

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Idioms.

Vocabulary Cards: Idioms

This graphic organizer helps your students examine descriptive adjectives and nouns.

T-Chart: Descriptive Adjectives and Nouns

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

Children will discover how figurative language can enliven writing in this fun cut-and-paste worksheet.

Rainy Day Friend Classroom Story

What could be more fun than using hyperbole? Adding superlatives! Your students will have fun identifying both of these figures of speech in this worksheet.

Hyperboles + Superlatives

Children draw the literal meaning of a few idiomatic expressions as they consider their true social meaning.

Show Your Idioms

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!

Seriously Fun Oxymorons!

Help your students practice identifying and writing alliterative sentences

Finish the Alliteration

Strong writing engages all five senses, and this fabulous fall-themed simile activity is the perfect way to celebrate sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.

Fall Similes

In this engaging worksheet, learners will practice identifying, working with, and writing hyperboles.

Fun With Hyperboles

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