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

EL students will read similes and identify how the two things being compared 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!

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

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

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

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.

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

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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