2nd - 6th Grade Figurative Language Resources : Page 4

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.

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

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.

After finishing Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, give students a chance to think about the significance of the symbols used in the novel.

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

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

When your students read this silly poem, they will find examples of hyperbole. Then, they will make a connection to another language concept: superlatives!

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.

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

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

Teach your students about contradictory phrases that go by the funny sounding name of "oxymoron." After your students match two words together to make oxymorons, they’ll write their own creative sentences using this fun figurative language tool.

Ideal for fourth and fifth graders, this worksheet includes figurative language examples and definitions on the first page, and a second full page of questions and tasks that can be used to check for understanding.

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

Get ready for some serious fun! Your students will be amused as they learn to identify oxymorons in sentences. Then, they will write their own.