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!

Engage your students with food puns to excite their appetites and brains!

Similes are all around us—sometimes you just need a little context to know how to decipher them! This lighthearted story about a twisted ankle contains two hidden similes. Can your students find them?

Invite learners to practice identifying examples of hyperbole with this fun Earth Day maze!

Give your learners fun practice identifying hyperboles with this sweet figurative language maze.

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Valentine's Day-themed similes!

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

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

Alliteration is a type of figurative language that is often used to engage a reader’s senses. Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration in context.

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.

Use these wacky sentences to help your students recognize alliteration as they read.

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.

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

Help your students identify if alliteration is used in these funny sentences!

Have fun with hyperbole in this funny fill-in story-writing worksheet!

This is a hilarious worksheet for students to dive into as they hone their figurative language skills! Young wordsmiths will practice identifying the differences between homonyms and homophones as they analyze puns.

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

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

This poem offers a fun, memorable example for students as they learn to interpret figurative language in works of poetry and literature.

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

Kids complete sentences with idioms in this worksheet.

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

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

Challenge your students to use what they know about idioms to find the double meaning in these silly puns. They will ‘get a kick’ out of it!

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

Help your students practice identifying and writing alliterative sentences

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

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