Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Sense of Metaphors.

After finishing Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, give students a chance to think about the significance of the symbols used in the novel.

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

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Idioms.

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

Take things to the extreme with this hyperbole practice sheet! Learn to use exaggeration to make your writing more descriptive.

With this worksheet, your students practice and identifying and writing hyperboles.

Get plenty of practice with alliteration by identifying and creating alliterative sentences.

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

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

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

Use this worksheet for more practice identifying alliteration.

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

In this worksheet, students will read Carl Sandburg's poem "Fog," then analyze the poem for figurative language.

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

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.

When your students read this silly poem, they will find examples of hyperbole. Then, they will make a connection to another language concept: superlatives!

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

In this worksheet, children will read five sentences, underlining the word that is an example of onomatopoeia.

Introduce your students to visual puns with these fun images! Then, challenge them to come up with their own visual puns.

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!

Give your students a case of the giggles with twelve funny pun cards that use similar sounding words and phrases to create double meaning.

Silly sentences will have your students smiling! Use this resource with your students to practice writing silly sentences with alliteration.

Students will learn to identify personification using nouns and verbs as signal words!