2nd - 7th Grade Figurative Language Resources : Page 3

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!

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

Practice identifying metaphors with this fun, summer-themed figurative language maze!

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

Your students will infer the meaning of unknown figurative language examples by using context clues.

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.

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

Your kids will have fun learning about hyperbole and writing some of their own exaggerations along the way!

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

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.

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?

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

Introduce your students to analogies with this fun, fill-in-the-blank worksheet!

Invite your learners to practice identifying hyperboles with this fun figurative language maze! 

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.

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

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

Encourage creativity and critical thinking about the characters in The Hunger Games with this artistic extension activity!

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

Take an Earth Day-themed adventure through this figurative language maze!

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

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

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

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

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