2nd - 7th Grade Descriptive Language Worksheets

Give your students a chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this engaging picture prompt! 

This worksheet will help your child understand what similes are, and she'll even get to use her imagination to write some of her own!

Introduce your students to eight common types of figurative language with this colorful exercise.

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Give students an opportunity to flex their descriptive writing muscles with another engaging picture prompt!

This grammar worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of figurative language in context, including similes, metaphors, idioms, and personification.

Little Easter Bunnies, get out your creative thinking caps and delve into this Easter writing prompt. Can you think up the best Easter egg hunt?

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Learn the secret ingredient to a well-organized paragraph in this fun writing exercise!

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

This Easter writing prompt will get your child to think about Easter traditions and then order his thoughts by practicing structured composition.

Students have another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Analogies are a way of describing the similarities between two things by comparing them.

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

In this assessment, students will apply their language arts knowledge to a broad set of problems.

Use this resource with your students to practice making connections between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will identify the relationships between words and their meanings.

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

This worksheet offers fun figurative language practice for young readers and writers.

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, learners will select and draw an animal to represent each season, then write a short paragraph describing one of the animals.

Take your pick from this packet of writing prompts which focus on one scene that has lots of possibilities. Is your young storyteller ready?

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Your students have been working hard on their descriptive writing skills! Assess student growth with this open-ended writing assignment and rubric that asks students to use their five senses to describe a place they have visited.

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

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Story retelling is a wonderful exercise in comprehension and vocabulary use.

Students will practice creating sentences using both like and as, filling in the blanks with figurative language of their own.

Learn all about the practice of personification in writing, then try it your hand at it by bringing life to some silly characters in this writing worksheet.