Learners discover the magic of figurative language in this reading and writing exercise.

Use this resource with your students to practice using context clues to determine the meaning of idioms.

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

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

This resource makes matching idioms as easy as pie! ​Students will pair idioms based on their identical meaning.

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.

Let's get as silly as a goose with these similes! Students will get creative as they finish simple similes with this introductory worksheet. After they finish, give them a chance to share their favorites with the class!

In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying metaphors as they color in the logs that contain them.

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

How is a grapefruit like a moon? They are both round! Students will identify which items are being compared in a metaphor, then describe one way they are alike.

When your students read this exaggerated tale, they will find a ton of hyperboles!

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

Students will read metaphors and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

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

Search this puzzle for onomatopoeias of animal sounds in other languages! How do they compare to the onomatopoeias you know?

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.

This worksheet is a slam dunk for metaphors! Your young writer will learn what makes up a metaphor, and then practice making a few of their own.

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

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

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

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!