Subjects

Math

English Language Arts

Science

Social Studies

Foreign Language

Grades

Pre-K

Kindergarten

1st Grade

2nd Grade

3rd Grade

4th Grade

5th Grade

6th Grade

7th Grade

8th Grade

Worksheets

Games

Build a Worksheet

Word Scramble

Word Search

Crossword Puzzle

Sudoku Generator

Addition Worksheet Generator 

Subtraction Worksheet Generator

Multiplication Worksheet Generator

Division Worksheet Generator

See All

More Resources

Arts & Crafts

Hands-On Activities

CVC Words

Guided Lessons

Common Core State Standards

Common Core Math

Common Core ELA

Roly Recommends

Weekly Recommendations

Early Childhood

Social Emotional Learning

Spring

Passover

Easter

Earth Day

Math Month

Showing Results for "figurative language"

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

Common Idioms


Similes, metaphors, and idioms are some of the most widely used literary devices in both speaking and writing. Students will review each of these and practice creating some of their own. 


Similes, Metaphors, and Idioms of Figurative Language

Support discussions about main ideas and summarization with these helpful language frames. This worksheet will help your students organize their thoughts and information from a nonfiction paragraph or text.

Language Frames: Nonfiction Summary

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

Get in the spirit of Christmas with a writing prompt about your favorite Christmas gifts! Your child can use descriptive language to make a paragraph.

Christmas Gift Writing Prompt

Put a fun spin on the typical "Dear Santa" letter. Your child must use persuasive language to convince Santa to bring her the presents she wants!

Dear Santa Writing Prompt

Help your writers develop a voice with this worksheet. Challenge them to think about ways to express themselves with language, phrases, idioms, similes, and word choice.

Tuning My Writing Voice

Chinese language learners match characters to pictures in this basic phrases matching activity. Students look at four lines of dialogue, then draw a line to the corresponding illustration.

Learn Chinese: Basic Phrases Match

This book of creative writing prompts will nudge reluctant writers towards a love of language with imaginative activities that take them through space, under the sea and into distant lands.

Story Starters

Help students understand homographic puns and how to use them.

Homographic Puns

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

Bad Hare Day Easter Puns

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

What Is an Analogy?

Learners will have fun with hyperbole in this lively writing worksheet.

Winter Hyperbole

Get creative with this Halloween writing exercise. Your child will write a brief paragraph on the topic provided. Think scary thoughts!

Halloween Creative Writing

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

How to Write a Scary Story

Let your voice be heard! This workbook challenges kids to express their opinions. But more importantly, they'll learn how to support opinions with good evidence and facts.

Opinion Writing

Find your inner musician with this fun-filled workbook all about music. Read about the history of different music genres, and learn to read music on the piano and guitar too!

Music to Your Ears

Give your child a fun way to polish his writing skills with a Halloween story starter. Hell get to make up his own scary story and get a creativity boost.

Halloween Story Starters #4

Ever wish you could breathe underwater? This creative writing prompt asks your child to imagine if humans could live underwater!

Creative Writing: Living Underwater

Get in the mood for Halloween with a spooky creative writing prompt. Your child will imagine and write about adventures in a haunted house!

Halloween Writing Prompt

What if you were the last person on earth? Give your child some fun writing practice with this sci-fi writing prompt.

Sci Fi Writing Prompt: End of the World

Celebrate the spirit of Halloween, and share a spooky story! With this creative writing exercise, your child will describe his costume and what inspired it.

Halloween Story Starters #2

It's the zombie apocalypse! What happens next? Your child will flex his creative writing skills with this fun Halloween writing prompt, all about zombies.

Halloween Writing Prompts #2

These days, we seem wired to our electronics! Challenge your child to imagine a world without electricity in this creative writing prompt.

Creative Writing: Electricity

The first half of Dotty's story is here, but the second half is missing! Can your child come up with her own ending to complete the page?

Complete the Story: Dotty and the Necklace

Got a video game enthusiast on your hands? Give them a fun alternative with this creative writing sheet, where they'll get to make up their own video game!

Descriptive Writing: Video Game

How cool would it be to have a pet dragon! Have fun with this "what if" writing prompt, and spin a fun story about the adventures you'd have.

Pet Dragon

Enhance your writing by revising sentences in this third- and fourth-grade grammar worksheet!

Better Together: Combining Sentences #3

Write concise, engaging sentences and eliminate repetitive words with this helpful handout!

Better Together: Introduction to Combining Sentences

So your students are going to write a narrative? Use these prewriting exercises to help them choose an idea and plan out their story.  

Narrative Prewriting Activities

First Grade

Second Grade

Third Grade

Fourth Grade

Fifth Grade

Sixth Grade

Seventh Grade

Eighth Grade

Grade Level

Lesson Plans

Interactive Worksheets

Workbooks

Activities

Exercises

Stories

Songs

Offline Games

Science Projects

Teacher Resources

Resource Type

Birthdays

Women's History Month

St. Patrick's Day

Ramadan

Cinco de Mayo

Mother's Day

Memorial Day

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Graduation

Summer

Father's Day

Independence Day

Back to School

Labor Day

Fall

Hispanic Heritage Month

Halloween

Dia de los Muertos

Veterans Day

Winter

Holidays

Thanksgiving

Christmas

Hanukkah

Kwanzaa

New Year

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Lunar New Year

Valentine's Day

Presidents' Day

Black History Month

Occasion

Common Core

What's New

Mazes

Dot to Dot

Ball Games

Crossword

Fitness & Exercise

Group Games

Memory Games

Outdoor Games

Printable Board Games

Puzzles & Sudoku

Scavenger Hunt

Travel Games

Word Puzzles

Game Type

Fabric Projects

Beads & Jewelry

Paper & Glue Crafts

Construction & Sculpture

Painting & Drawing

Recycled Crafts

Coloring

Snacks

Mains

Sides

Dessert

Recipes

English Language Support