After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, students reflect on the author's use of dialogue and literary techniques to drive the story.

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

Students will learn about the history of hyperbole in literature and politics.

Practice identifying hyperbole with this engaging winter-themed figurative language maze!

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

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Halloween-themed similes!

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

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

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

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

Brush up on your figurative language skills this fall season with this engaging metaphors maze!

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

Invite your learners to practice identifying hyperboles with this fun figurative language maze! 

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Halloween-themed metaphors!

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

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

Your mind will burst with knowledge after completing this hyperbole activity! Turn normal skills and traits into larger-than-life abilities using exaggeration.

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.

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

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

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

This middle school worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of allusion (mythological, biblical, literary, or historical), simile, personification, or metaphor. 

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.

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!

Encourage creativity and critical thinking about the characters in The Hunger Games with this artistic extension activity!

Students study real examples of verbal irony, puns, personification, and allusions in context with this middle grades worksheet! 

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.

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

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

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