3rd Grade Literary Devices and Figurative Language Educational Resources

Keep your students busy as bees with these resources that introduce them to figurative language and allow them to create their own. Metaphors, similes, and idioms are no match for your students when they have completed these activities and worksheets that give them a complete understanding of figurative language at a third grade level. Challenge students with our fifth grade figurative language resources.

Figures of speech can add a lot of personality to language. In third grade, students start exploring different figures of speech such as similes, metaphors, common idioms and more. The dozens of tools that educators can access from Education.com's Learning Library are educator-created, educational and engaging.

Alliteration gives rhythm to language and writing. The worksheet Figurative Language: Identifying Alliteration uses bouncy phrases like "Annie's apples rolled away in August" and instructs students to circle the similar sounds within the sentence. Literal and Non-literal Language is a worksheet that helps students understand turns of phrases. And Idioms: Picture This! similarly introduces children to commonly used English expressions such as ""see eye to eye.""

There are a few online sorting games that are a close look at similes and metaphors. Lesson plans Take a Walk With Idioms and Capturing the Clues guides students to recognize idioms and discover what they mean by using context clues.

In addition, there are several hands-on activities, printable workbooks and other third grade figurative language sources that make learning a piece of cake.