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

Students study real examples of verbal irony, puns, personification, and allusions in context with this middle grades worksheet! 

Similes are all around us—sometimes you just need a little context to know how to decipher them! This lighthearted story about a twisted ankle contains two hidden similes. Can your students find them?

EL students will read similes and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

In this exercise, students will use linking verbs to write metaphors with support.

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

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!

Children will discover how figurative language can enliven writing in this fun cut-and-paste worksheet.

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

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

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

Encourage creativity and critical thinking about the characters in The Hunger Games with this artistic extension activity!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

After reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, challenge students to think about the symbolism of the costumes in the novel and get creative!

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

Teach your students about hyperbole using music! First, let them practice interpreting hyperboles. Then, play a song (or provide lyrics) and invite them to listen for an example of hyperbole.

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

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

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 glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Sense of Metaphors.

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.

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

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

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.