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4th - 8th Grade Common Core Descriptive Language Worksheets

Give your students a chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this engaging picture prompt!&nbsp;

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #1

This worksheet will help your child understand what similes are, and she'll even get to use her imagination to write some of her own!

Scrambled Similes

Introduce your students to eight common types of figurative language with this colorful exercise.

What Is Figurative Language?

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #7

This grammar worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of figurative language in context, including similes, metaphors, idioms, and personification.

Figurative Language in Context #1

Give students an opportunity to flex their descriptive writing muscles with another engaging picture prompt!

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #2

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #9

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #11

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #6

Learn the secret ingredient to a well-organized paragraph in this fun writing exercise!

Paragraph Sandwich

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #5

Students have another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring&nbsp;picture prompt!

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #3

Little Easter Bunnies, get out your creative thinking caps and delve into this Easter writing prompt. Can you think up the best Easter egg hunt?

Easter Creative Writing #9

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #13

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #4

In this assessment, students will apply their language arts knowledge to a broad set of problems.

Mixed Review Language Arts Assessment: Let's Soar in Grade 4

Analogies are a way of describing the similarities between two things by comparing them.

What Is an Analogy?

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, learners&nbsp;will select and draw an animal to represent each season, then write a short paragraph describing one of the animals.

Seasons Writing Prompt

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #10

Use this resource with your students to practice making connections between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will identify the relationships between words and their meanings.

Working with Analogies

This Easter writing prompt will get your child to think about Easter traditions and then order his thoughts by practicing structured composition.

Easter Creative Writing #4

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #12

This worksheet offers fun figurative language practice for young readers and writers.

Common Idioms

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

Assonance and Consonance

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #8

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

Hilarious Hyperbole

Take mystery and suspenseful writing to the next level with this worksheet! Students can revise sentences and then use this exercise to make their own writing more evocative. Use this worksheet to practice adding vivid details to sentences.

Narrative Writing: Add Sensory Details

Students can practice finding transition words using a sample text about the popularity of soccer that’s chock full of transitions.

America's Favorite Sport Is Transitioning from Baseball and Football to Soccer

This volcano writing worksheet is a great brainstorm starter and provides a different approach to composition, perfect for research-based writing.

Volcano Writing Scene

Upper grade students practice using transitions to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Transition Words & Phrases: Task Cards

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