2nd - 5th Grade Figurative Language Resources : Page 3

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!

In this worksheet, children read Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale The Snowdrop, reimagined here as a drama.

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

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

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

Kids complete sentences with idioms in this worksheet.

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

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

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

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

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!

Students will read metaphors and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

This worksheet is a slam dunk for metaphors! Your young writer will learn what makes up a metaphor, and then practice making a few of their own.

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.

Your students will have fun identifying the homophones in these hilarious puns!

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

EL students will read similes and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

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

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

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

Students will learn about the history of hyperbole in literature and politics.

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