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.

BOOM! This worksheet is full of all kinds of sound-based words, from creaks to squeaks.

Learners will practice identifying and decoding figurative language as they read and decipher five practice sentences.

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!

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

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

Put all your Easter eggs in this worksheet! Help your students use the context of a sentence to discover the meaning of these Easter idioms.

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.

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?

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.

Students will play with words as they explore a variety of oxymorons in this fun worksheet. As kids identify these contradictory terms and integrate them into sentences, they’ll see how figurative language can add humor and intrigue to their writing

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!

After introducing similes, give kids a chance to be creative with this writing activity! Students will have fun comparing all kinds of things of their choosing using the prompts, and you'll love watching them use and grow their figurative language ski

Teach your students about contradictory phrases that go by the funny sounding name of "oxymoron." After your students match two words together to make oxymorons, they’ll write their own creative sentences using this fun figurative language

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.

Learn onomatopoeia while you experience an exciting video game quest!

Determine the appropriate onomatopoeia for different situations in this engaging puzzle!

After completing this worksheet, you’ll know oxymorons inside out!

Get fourth and fifth graders' creativity flowing with this personification worksheet! 

Crash into onomatopoeia practice in this engaging worksheet!

Alliteration is a fun way to play with language! Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration

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.

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