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

Children work with two forms of figurative language in this grammar worksheet.

Alliteration is a fun way to play with language! Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration

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

Introduce your students to these common English idioms, used in the context of a sentence.

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

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

An onomatopoeia is a word that imitates the sound it's describing. Search through this word search to find each comic book onomatopoeia!

What does "when pigs fly" mean if pigs can't really fly? Kids use context clues to learn the meanings of common idioms on this third grade reading worksheet.

Learners will use their background knowledge and sentence-based context clues to determine the meaning of common allusions.

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

Ooh, onomatopoeia! This is a word that mimics a sound: like the "slurp" of spaghetti, a dog's "woof", or comic book sounds like "crash", "bam" and "bang".

Practice identifying metaphors with this fun, winter-themed figurative language maze!

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!

Have fun with figurative language with these Halloween exaggerations that are sure to spook your students! They will enjoy the chance to write their own hyperboles with these over-the-top sentences.

Get a taste of verbal irony with this figurative language worksheet in which students study the definitions and examples of sarcasm, exaggeration, and understatement.

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

Kids complete sentences with idioms in this worksheet.

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

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

Take an Earth Day-themed adventure through this figurative language maze!

Students will read metaphors and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

How is a grapefruit like a moon? They are both round! Students will identify which items are being compared in a metaphor, then describe one way they are alike.