2nd - 4th Grade Figurative Language Resources : Page 2

Children will practice bringing excitement to their writing in this fun figurative language worksheet.

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

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

Let's get as silly as a goose with these similes! Students will get creative as they finish simple similes with this introductory worksheet. After they finish, give them a chance to share their favorites with the class!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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

Kids complete sentences with idioms in this worksheet.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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

In this worksheet, children will read five sentences, underlining the word that is an example of onomatopoeia.