Let your young writer relax by practicing writing notes to friends, journal entries, and even a grocery list!

This poem offers a fun, memorable example for students as they learn to interpret figurative language in works of poetry and literature.

In this vocabulary-building worksheet, students will read several short paragraphs and identify and match familiar words with their lesser known synonyms.

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

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

In this engaging reading comprehension worrksheet, learners read an original two-page story and answer a set of comprehension questions.

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

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.

This resource makes matching idioms as easy as pie! ​Students will pair idioms based on their identical meaning.

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

Introduce your students to these common English idioms, used in the context of a sentence.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Students will practice using pronouns to help them understand point of view.

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

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

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

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

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

Students will learn to identify and interpret similes, metaphors, and personification in writing.

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

Explore a fascinating period of U.S. history with this informational reading worksheet about the Harlem Renaissance.

Practice identifying and using verbs in the past, present, and future tenses as well as their progressive forms.

Practice spelling with plurals and possessives in this grammar worksheet for middle grades!

As your students read these silly limericks, they’ll identify examples of hyperbole.