3rd and 4th Grade Figurative Language Resources : Page 2

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

Your mind will burst with knowledge after completing this hyperbole activity! Turn normal skills and traits into larger-than-life abilities using exaggeration.

Kids complete sentences with idioms in this worksheet.

Help your students identify if alliteration is used in these funny sentences!

With this worksheet, your students practice and identifying and writing hyperboles.

Are you so hungry you could eat a horse? Your students will have fun identifying the examples of hyperbole and idioms in this worksheet.

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.

This worksheet is a beast! That's a metaphor, and your child will be writing their own metaphors in no time, then they can use them in a poem.

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

Engage your students with food puns to excite their appetites and brains!

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

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

In this worksheet, children will read five sentences, underlining the word that is an example of onomatopoeia.

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

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

Have some fun with the alphabet as you learn all about alliteration! Create an alliteration for every letter of the alphabet.

Students will learn common animal sound words in different languages!

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

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