Try a crossword puzzle where all the answers are opposites of their clues!

Middle school writers practice rewriting sentences using personification to add description and make the sentences more exciting!

Read Aesop's classic fable, then answer a few reading comprehension questions.

Grammar enthusiasts and baseball fans will enjoy identifying the adjectives—and the nouns they describe—in this engaging parts of speech worksheet.

Learners discover the magic of figurative language in this reading and writing exercise.

Let your young writer relax by practicing writing notes to friends, journal entries, and even a grocery list!

Children will learn how to make subjects and verbs agree, and then practice completing ten sentences with the correct verb, in this appealing grammar worksheet.

This poem offers a fun, memorable example for students as they learn to interpret figurative language in works of poetry and literature.

In this vocabulary-building worksheet, students will read several short paragraphs and identify and match familiar words with their lesser known synonyms.

In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying metaphors as they color in the logs that contain them.

Alliteration is a type of figurative language that is often used in poetry. Use this classic poem with your students to practice identifying alliteration in context.

Students identify word parts, including prefixes, base words, and suffixes, in this third-grade grammar worksheet!

Get students thinking critically and creatively about character archetypes in the novels they’re reading with this engaging reading activity!

Students study real examples of verbal irony, puns, personification, and allusions in context with this middle grades worksheet! 

In this engaging reading comprehension worrksheet, learners read an original two-page story and answer a set of comprehension questions.

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

As quiet as a mouse or as quiet as a cucumber? Kids will learn the definition of a simile, then use pictures as clues to complete the similes.

This resource makes matching idioms as easy as pie! ​Students will pair idioms based on their identical meaning.

Have fun with hyperbole in this funny fill-in story-writing worksheet!

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

Introduce your students to these common English idioms, used in the context of a sentence.

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

Introduce your students to vocabulary words that will strengthen their descriptive writing!

Help your third grader practice following directions on how to build a tornado in a bottle, and build his reading comprehension skills in the process.

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!

Children read a passage from L. Frank Baum's classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, then answer a series of questions in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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.

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!

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

Finding the main idea of a story is a fundamental reading comprehension skill. Help your child tackle reading with this beginner's worksheet!