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.

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.

Have a laugh (or a groan) with this fun figurative language worksheet all about puns!

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.

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

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

If your students need more practice with onomatopoeia, this worksheet will provide them with examples of common animal sounds and related contexts.

Learners will practice identifying and decoding figurative language as they read and decipher five practice sentences.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Idioms.

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

Metaphors are imaginative ways to describe something by comparing that thing to something else. With this worksheet, students will write a metaphor for each pair of given words.

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.

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

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.

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