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

Children use their knowledge of figurative language to complete the idioms in this fun fishing game!

Dino Fishing: Complete the Idiom

Students will get even better at creating punny sentences as they use homonyms!

More Fun with Puns

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

Alphabet Alliteration

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

Vocabulary Cards: Figurative Language

Help your students practice identifying and writing alliterative sentences

Finish the Alliteration

Many idioms are a dime a dozen. Give kids a chance to flex their figurative language skills and creativity by having them write and illustrate their very own idioms. Students will find that time really does fly when they're having fun!

My Own Idiom

Kids help Muggo sort metaphors into emotions, actions, and appearances.

Metaphor Sorting in Muggo's Brain

This fun worksheet is an appealing way for students to see how hyperboles can add joy and humor to the writing process.

Hilarious Hyperbole

Let’s exaggerate! Hyperboles are a fun way for students to spice up their writing.

Humongous Hyperboles

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

Hyperbole

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

Rainy Day Friend Classroom Story

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

Give your students exposure to funny puns related to animals!

Animal Puns

Use this worksheet to help students practice understanding homophonic puns.

Homophonic Puns

Ideal for fourth and fifth graders, this worksheet includes figurative language examples and definitions on the first page, and a second full page of questions and tasks that can be used to check for understanding.

Fall Figurative Language Task Cards

Students will laugh as they practice using alliteration in this fun writing worksheet.

Let's Play with Alliteration

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

Wild and Wonderful Alliteration

Your students will love getting creative as they turn ordinary statements into hyperboles.

Write Your Own Hyperboles

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!

Inside Out Oxymorons!

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.

Oh My Oxymoron

Introduce learners to this fun form of figurative language with this entertaining worksheet.

Intense Hyperboles

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: An Introduction to Onomatopoeia.

Glossary: An Introduction to Onomatopoeia

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

This is a hilarious worksheet for students to dive into as they hone their figurative language skills! Young wordsmiths will practice identifying the differences between homonyms and homophones as they analyze puns.

What's so Punny?

Get plenty of practice with alliteration by identifying and creating alliterative sentences.

Identifying Alliteration, Descriptive Adjectives, and Nouns

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

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.

Making Metaphors

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

Students will be rolling with laughter as they read and write their own puns!

Let's Have Even More Pun!

Awfully Great Oxymorons

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