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4th - 6th Grade Common Core Figurative Language Resources : Page 5

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 tool.

Make a Match with Oxymorons

Give your students exposure to funny puns related to animals!

Animal Puns

After finishing Mildred D. Taylor&rsquo;s <em>Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry</em>, give students a chance to think about the significance of the symbols used in the novel.

Novel Study: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Exploring Symbols

Use this worksheet to help students practice understanding homophonic puns.

Homophonic Puns

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

Kids categorize metaphors by type in this sorting game.

Muggo's Brain: Sorting Metaphors

Students will laugh as they practice using alliteration in this fun writing worksheet.

Let's Play with Alliteration

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

Wild and Wonderful Alliteration

Your students will love getting creative as they turn ordinary statements into hyperboles.

Write Your Own 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!

Inside Out Oxymorons!

Oxymorons are seriously fun business! Your fifth graders will have fun making oxymorons by matching contradictory words, as well as crafting unique sentences as they practice using these antithetical phrases in their writing.

Oh My Oxymoron

Introduce learners to this fun form of figurative language with this entertaining worksheet.

Intense Hyperboles

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: An Introduction to Onomatopoeia.

Glossary: An Introduction to Onomatopoeia

In this reading and writing worksheet about the poem “A Nation’s Strength” by William Ralph Emerson, students will use their understanding of figurative language to identify and define metaphors and difficult vocabulary.

A Nation’s Strength

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.

What's so Punny?

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

Identifying Alliteration, Descriptive Adjectives, and Nouns

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.

Hyperboles + Superlatives

Children use their knowledge of figurative language to complete the idioms in this fun fishing game!

Dino Fishing: Complete the Idiom

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

Students will be rolling with laughter as they read and write their own puns!

Let's Have Even More Pun!

Awfully Great Oxymorons

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.

Write Your Own Hyperboles #1

Help your students use homonyms to write their own puns as they practice using figurative language with this fun activity!

Create a Pun

Young writers will work with animal metaphors as they plan and craft a poem about someone they know.

Make an Animal Metaphor

Engage your students with eggciting wordplay and food puns!

Fun with Food Puns #2

With this worksheet, your fifth graders will add feeling to their writing by using hyperbole. Hyperbole is an extreme exaggeration that adds emphasis and humor for extra effect. Once they complete this worksheet, they will be masters of hyperbole.

Write Your Own Hyperboles #2

This wonderful worksheet is a great way for students to practice using alliteration!

Make It Alliterate #2

Get to know figurative language like the back of your hand with this fifth-grade learning game!

Dino Bones: Using Figurative Language in Sentences

Help students understand homographic puns and how to use them.

Homographic Puns

These 24 cards will introduce your students to common sound words!

Onomatopoeia Visual Glossary Cards

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