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3rd - 5th Grade Common Core Descriptive Language Worksheets

This worksheet will help your child understand what similes are, and she'll even get to use her imagination to write some of her own!

Scrambled Similes

Introduce your students to eight common types of figurative language with this colorful exercise.

What Is Figurative Language?

Learn the secret ingredient to a well-organized paragraph in this fun writing exercise!

Paragraph Sandwich

Use this resource with your students to practice making connections between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will identify the relationships between words and their meanings.

Working with Analogies

In this assessment, students will apply their language arts knowledge to a broad set of problems.

Mixed Review Language Arts Assessment: Let's Soar in Grade 4

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

Working with Analogies 2

Feelings and emotions can be a bridge to naming details and helping students identify details to use in their writing.

Elaborating on Feelings

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.

Assonance and Consonance

This worksheet offers fun figurative language practice for young readers and writers.

Common Idioms

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, learners&nbsp;will select and draw an animal to represent each season, then write a short paragraph describing one of the animals.

Seasons Writing Prompt

Students complete a figurative language flip chart from the mnemonic device I SHAMPOO C.

Flipchart: I SHAMPOO C

Take mystery and suspenseful writing to the next level with this worksheet! Students can revise sentences and then use this exercise to make their own writing more evocative. Use this worksheet to practice adding vivid details to sentences.

Narrative Writing: Add Sensory Details

Analogies are a way of describing the similarities between two things by comparing them.

What Is an Analogy?

This fun worksheet is an appealing way for students to see how hyperboles can add joy and humor to the writing process.

Hilarious Hyperbole

This volcano writing worksheet is a great brainstorm starter and provides a different approach to composition, perfect for research-based writing.

Volcano Writing Scene

Story retelling is a wonderful exercise in comprehension and vocabulary use.

Super Story Retelling

Students can practice finding transition words using a sample text about the popularity of soccer that’s chock full of transitions.

America's Favorite Sport Is Transitioning from Baseball and Football to Soccer

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Practice Using Transitions #1

"Nessie" may be the world's most famous unseen sea creature! Try seeing things from her point of view with this fun writing prompt.

Loch Ness Monster

Spellers take their skills to the stratosphere with this fun practice worksheet.

Spelling List: Space Exploration

Use this worksheet to help students practice understanding homophonic puns.

Homophonic Puns

Learn all about the practice of personification in writing, then try it your hand at it by bringing life to some silly characters in this writing worksheet.

Personification

Your student must put her creative writing skills to the test to complete the parts of the story that are missing.

Finish the Story: The Forest

Help your students practice using two antonyms to create an oxymoron.

Oxymoron Creations

Flex your superhuman writing abilities with a fun prompt! If you could be a superhero, what power would you want to have?

My Super Power

Use this awfully good worksheet about using an oxymoron to inspire creative writing.

Obvious Oxymoron

Here is a great story-starter for more advanced writers. Your student will put his creativity to the test by filling in the blanks to this story!

Finish the Story: The Kitten

This printable game is a walk in the park! Get fired up for figurative language with this fun and creative metaphor game.

Metaphor Game

The first half of Dotty's story is here, but the second half is missing! Can your child come up with her own ending to complete the page?

Complete the Story: Dotty and the Necklace

Help your students practice adding hyperbole into their writing.

Hunting for Hyperbole

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