3rd - 5th Grade Reading Comprehension Exercises

Students will understand how to identify and use metaphors after they work through this exercise.

Once students get underway with this Education.com exercise, learning about similes is easy as pie.

Introduce students to the world of idioms with this exercise that shares some of the most common expressions in the English language.

Give a cultural lesson and expand your students’ vocabulary at the same time with this idioms exercise.

Every educator eschews un-exciting educational exercises; employ this Education.com exercise for an entertaining and eventful lesson on alliteration!

Your students will be all smiles when learning how to compare objects with this similes exercise.

Students will be able to creatively apply metaphors to their discussions after they complete this exercise.

Students will be as confident in writing as a Pulitzer Prize winner after completing this final exercise in the similes series.

Students will finally have a name to describe the “dog ate my homework” storytelling that runs rampant throughout childhood with this hyperbole exercise.

Students will have a blast playing with this exercise that shows how spelling onomatopoeias comes from real-life sounds.

There’s nothing greater than a student who can appreciate a pun activity when they play one.

Teach students how to use short stories to illustrate a point with this engaging exercise.

Help students learn how to categorize objects with this exercise that educates them about oxymorons.