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4th and 5th Grade Common Core Literary Devices and Figurative Language Educational Resources : Page 2

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

Identical Idioms

Students will be as confident in writing as a Pulitzer Prize winner after completing this final exercise in the similes series.


Similes 3

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.

Idioms: A Figure of Speech

Students will have a blast playing with this exercise that shows how spelling onomatopoeias comes from real-life sounds.


Onomatopoeia

Teach students how to use short stories to illustrate a point with this engaging exercise.


Metaphors 2

Help students learn how to categorize objects with this exercise that educates them about oxymorons.


Oxymoron

Students will be able to creatively apply metaphors to their discussions after they complete this exercise.


Metaphors 3

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

Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #2

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

Is It Alliteration?

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

Idioms: Tell Us What You Think!

There’s nothing greater than a student who can appreciate a pun activity when they play one.


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.

Easy Easter Idioms

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

Examples of Hyperbole! Part 2

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

Hyperbole Story

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

Having Fun with Hyperbole

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.

Metaphors

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

Practice Onomatopoeia!

Alliteration is a type of figurative language that is often used to engage a reader’s senses. Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration in context.

Figurative Language: Alliteration in Context

Kids complete sentences with idioms in this worksheet.

Making Sense of Idioms

Kids categorize metaphors by type in this sorting game.

Muggo's Brain: Sorting Metaphors

In this worksheet, students will read Carl Sandburg's poem "Fog," then analyze the poem for figurative language.

Metaphors in Poetry

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

Reading & Understanding Metaphors

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!

Puns with Idioms

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.

Fall Figurative Language Task Cards

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

Wacky Alliteration

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

Figurative Language: Alliteration Sentences

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

Hyperbole

Are you so hungry you could eat a horse? Your students will have fun identifying the examples of  hyperbole and idioms in this worksheet.

Expressions Explained

Challenge your students to find the definitions of each homograph that give these puns their double meaning.

Puns with Homographs

When your students read this exaggerated tale, they will find a ton of hyperboles!

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