Students will learn to identify onomatopoeia using a word bank and context clues.

Inspire a love for creative language in fourth- and fifth-grade students!

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.

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

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

Help students learn and remember key types of figurative language with this convenient handout!

Students will be rolling with laughter as they read and write their own puns!

Discover the interesting and sometimes humorous world of oxymorons with this fun maze activity!

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.

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

Make a splash with this summer-themed figurative language worksheet for fourth and fifth graders!

EL students will read similes and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

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

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

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.

Learners will have fun honing their language and grammar skills with this fall-themed figurative language maze!

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

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

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!

Young writers will work with animal metaphors as they plan and craft a poem about someone they know.

Practice using onomatopoeia like hiss, squeak, and boom in this fun language puzzle!

May the summer sun smile upon you as you complete this personification worksheet for fourth, fifth, and sixth graders!