5th and 6th Grade Figurative Language Resources : Page 2

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Valentine's Day-themed similes!

Have fun with hyperbole in this funny fill-in story-writing worksheet!

Learners will have fun honing their language and grammar skills with this fall-themed figurative language maze!

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

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.

As quiet as a mouse or as quiet as a cucumber? Kids will learn the definition of a simile, then use pictures as clues to complete the similes.

Get students thinking critically and creatively about character archetypes in the novels they’re reading with this engaging reading activity!

Search this puzzle for onomatopoeias of animal sounds in other languages! How do they compare to the onomatopoeias you know?

Introduce your students to vocabulary words that will strengthen their descriptive writing!

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

How is a grapefruit like a moon? They are both round! Students will identify which items are being compared in a metaphor, then describe one way they are alike.

Children read a passage from L. Frank Baum's classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, then answer a series of questions in this reading comprehension worksheet.

Give your learners fun practice identifying hyperboles with this sweet figurative language maze.

In this worksheet, children read Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale The Snowdrop, reimagined here as a drama.

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

Engage your students with food puns to excite their appetites and brains!

In this worksheet, students will read Carl Sandburg's poem "Fog," then analyze the poem for figurative language.

Have your learners practice identifying hyperboles with this fun, seasonal figurative language maze.

Your mind will burst with knowledge after completing this hyperbole activity! Turn normal skills and traits into lager-than-life abilities using exaggeration.

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!

Students will read metaphors and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

Invite learners to practice identifying examples of hyperbole with this fun Earth Day maze!

Invite your learners to practice identifying hyperboles with this fun figurative language maze! 

This worksheet is a slam dunk for metaphors! Your young writer will learn what makes up a metaphor, and then practice making a few of their own.

Having fun with words and sounds! Extend your students’ experience with onomatopoeia by giving them words to sort and asking them to identify how an author could use specific words in their writing.

Your students will have fun identifying the homophones in these hilarious puns!