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

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.

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!

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

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

This fun worksheet is an appealing way for students to see how hyperboles can add joy and humor to the writing process.

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 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.

Give your students exposure to funny puns related to animals!

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

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

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

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

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

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

Put all your Easter eggs in this worksheet! Help your students use the context of a sentence to discover the meaning of these Easter idioms.

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

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.

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

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!

It's time to change boring to extraordinary with hyperbole magic! Your fifth graders will enjoy rewriting simple statements using hyperbole to exaggerate. Once they finish, they will be the smartest students in the world.

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

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.

Help your students practice adding hyperbole into their writing.

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

Help your budding wordsmiths develop their figurative language skills with this fun pun activity! This is a great worksheet for students to practice identifying and using homophones as they work to create their very own puns!

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

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

What could be more fun than using hyperbole? Adding superlatives! Your students will have fun identifying both of these figures of speech in this worksheet.