These sentences are missing some pieces. Can your second grader fill in the blanks, using the images above each sentence as a guide?

Students will look at hilarious puns and how they use homonyms and homophones.

Use this organizer to help students track examples of hyperbole.

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

Get the ants into the anthill by connecting words with opposite meanings. It's an antonym anthill!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Personification Practice.

Compound words are much like addition, but with words instead of numbers. Can your second grader add up the words on this worksheet?

Get the ants into the anthill by tracing a path between the words of opposite meanings.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Learning New Vocabulary.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Alliteration Accessible.

In this vocabulary-building worksheet, children will look at seven homographs, then write two sentences that reflect each of each word's meaning and part of speech.

It's an antonym anthill! Get the ants into the anthill by connecting words with opposite meanings.

Help your second grader get a grip on common homophones with a colorful worksheet that asks him to choose the right word for each sentence.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Alliteration Accessible.

It's time to let loose and get silly with this fun figurative language exercise! This worksheet will let your students stretch their creativity as they practice using homonyms to write their own puns.

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!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Fun with Sight Words.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Figuring Out Tricky Words.