Kids complete sentences with idioms in this worksheet.

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

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.

Are you as quick as lightning? Learn about similes with this fun activity. Pick a simile and draw a picture to represent it.

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

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.

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

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

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

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

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

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

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

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

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

Your students will infer the meaning of unknown figurative language examples by using context clues.

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 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.

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

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.

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!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Idioms.

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!

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

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

What do you call a pig that does karate? A pork chop! This figurative language worksheet gives your students a chance to create art to represent puns. Kids will have fun reading the puns and making their own illustrations to accompany them!

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!

Children draw the literal meaning of a few idiomatic expressions as they consider their true social meaning.

Introduce learners to this fun form of figurative language with this entertaining worksheet.