Alliteration is a type of figurative language that is often used to engage a reader’s senses. Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration in context.

Brush up on your figurative language skills this fall season with this engaging metaphors maze!

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

Practice identifying hyperbole with this engaging winter-themed figurative language maze!

Invite your learners to practice identifying hyperboles with this fun figurative language maze! 

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Valentine's Day-themed similes!

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

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

Give your learners fun practice identifying hyperboles with this sweet figurative language maze.

Kids complete sentences with idioms in this worksheet.

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 ski

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Halloween-themed metaphors!

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Halloween-themed similes!

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.

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.

How is a grapefruit like a moon? They are both round! Students will identify which items are being compared in a metaphor, then describe one way they are alike.

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!

Have your learners practice identifying hyperboles with this fun figurative language maze.

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!

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

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.

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

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

With this worksheet, your students practice and identifying and writing hyperboles.

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

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

These similes got mixed up! With this simile worksheet, students will choose from a selection of words to complete the scrambled similes.

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.

Successful students set sail with alliteration! Use this resource with your students to practice writing sentences using alliteration.

Help your students practice identifying and writing alliterative sentences