Your students will infer the meaning of unknown figurative language examples by using context clues.

Use this activity to help students find and decipher metaphors in the context of short passages. Students will read the passages, record what is being compared in each, and then seek to explain the metaphors' meanings in their own words.

Give kids a chance to think creatively about metaphors by letting them write their own! Students will stretch their imaginations and figurative language skills as they think of ways to describe their class, bedroom, and more.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Puns offer kids the chance to have fun with figurative language! Your students will giggle as they find homophones in each of these silly puns.

Get students thinking figuratively by having them connect their understanding of metaphors and similes to the books they read in class. Students will seek out a metaphor or simile in their reading, consider the quote's context, then explain what they

Use this worksheet to help students practice understanding homophonic puns.

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

Students will love reading these wacky sentences to practice recognizing alliteration as they read.

Students will get to play with words as they explore a variety of oxymorons in this seriously fun worksheet! As kids explain the meaning of these contradictory terms, they’ll learn how figurative language can add humor and intrigue to their writing!

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.

This Easter worksheet will help students practice understanding the meaning of puns.

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!

Use this awfully good worksheet about using an oxymoron to inspire creative writing.

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

Students will learn to identify personification using nouns and verbs as signal words!

Help your students practice using two antonyms to create an oxymoron.

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

Use this worksheet to help students practice understanding the meaning of Easter puns.

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.

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

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

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