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.

Help your students practice adding hyperbole into their writing.

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

Help your budding wordsmiths develop their figurative language skills with this fun pun activity! This is a great worksheet for students to practice identifying and using homophones as they work to create their very own puns!

Use these wacky sentences to help your students recognize alliteration as they read.

In this grammar worksheet, learners will enjoy writing what each idiom means figuratively, then drawing a picture to illustrate its meaning.

What could be more fun than using hyperbole? Adding superlatives! Your students will have fun identifying both of these figures of speech in this worksheet.

Students will be rolling with laughter as they read and write their own puns!

Have fun with figurative language with these Halloween exaggerations that are sure to spook your students! They will enjoy the chance to write their own hyperboles with these over-the-top sentences.

Take things to the extreme with this hyperbole practice sheet! Learn to use exaggeration to make your writing more descriptive.

Your students will have fun identifying the homophones in these hilarious puns!

Young writers will work with animal metaphors as they plan and craft a poem about someone they know.

Get students thinking figuratively by having them connect their understanding of metaphors and similes to the books they read in class. Students will seek out a metaphor or simile in their reading, consider the quote's context, then explain what they

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.

Students will get to play with words as they explore a variety of oxymorons in this seriously fun worksheet! As kids explain the meaning of these contradictory terms, they’ll learn how figurative language can add humor and intrigue to their writing!

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Idioms.

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

Help your students understand figurative language as they practice identifying homonyms!

Use this worksheet for more practice identifying alliteration.

Why is the math book so sad? It has too many problems! Help your students bring puns to life by having them create visuals to represent the play on words. Kids will have a blast reading the puns and making their own illustrations to accompany them.

Your students will love getting creative as they turn ordinary statements into hyperboles.

An oxymoron is a figure of speech made up of words with very different meanings. In this creative writing activity, students will put their figurative language skills to the test as they craft a story using some catchy contradictory phrases!

Use this worksheet to help students practice understanding homophonic puns.

In this engaging worksheet, learners will practice identifying, working with, and writing hyperboles.

Students will use their imaginations to write sentences using alliteration.

Students will learn to identify personification using nouns and verbs as signal words!

Silly sentences will have your students smiling! Use this resource with your students to practice writing silly sentences with alliteration.

This wonderful worksheet is a great way for students to practice using alliteration!

Many idioms are a dime a dozen. Give kids a chance to flex their figurative language skills and creativity by having them write and illustrate their very own idioms. Students will find that time really does fly when they're having fun!