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

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.

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

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.

Use this activity to help students find and decipher metaphors in the context of short passages. Students will read the passages, record what is being compared in each, and then seek to explain the metaphors' meanings in their own words.

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

Students hone their ability to spot literary devices with this fun, winter-themed figurative language maze!

Children will practice bringing excitement to their writing in this fun figurative language worksheet.

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!

These similes got mixed up! With this simile worksheet, students will choose from a selection of words to complete the scrambled similes.

Give kids a chance to think creatively about metaphors by letting them write their own! Students will stretch their imaginations and figurative language skills as they think of ways to describe their class, bedroom, and more.

Search this puzzle for animal onomatopoeias. An onomatopoeia is a word that imitates the sound that it's describing. These words are sounds made by animals!

Having fun with words and sounds! Extend your students’ experience with onomatopoeia by giving them words to sort and asking them to identify how an author could use specific words in their writing.

This exercise will get your students inferring the meaning of unknown metaphors.

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

Alliteration is a type of figurative language that is often used to engage a reader’s senses. Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration in context.

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

Ideal for fourth and fifth graders, this worksheet includes figurative language examples and definitions on the first page, and a second full page of questions and tasks that can be used to check for understanding.

If your students need more practice with onomatopoeia, this worksheet will provide them with examples of common animal sounds and related contexts.

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?

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

Help your students practice identifying and writing alliterative sentences

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

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

Successful students set sail with alliteration! Use this resource with your students to practice writing sentences using alliteration.

Metaphors are imaginative ways to describe something by comparing that thing to something else. With this worksheet, students will write a metaphor for each pair of given words.