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5th - 7th Grade Descriptive Language Educational Resources : Page 2

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Practice Using Transitions #2

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

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

What Is an Analogy?

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

Working with Analogies 2

Students complete a figurative language flip chart from the mnemonic device I SHAMPOO C.

Flipchart: I SHAMPOO C

Use this worksheet to help students practice understanding the meaning of Easter puns.

Eggsciting Easter Puns

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

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

This worksheet offers useful practice for students learning about this figurative language device.

Alliteration for Kids

Students will practice creating sentences using both like and as, filling in the blanks with figurative language of their own.

Similes for Kids

This printable game is a walk in the park! Get fired up for figurative language with this fun and creative metaphor game.

Metaphor Game

Help your students practice using two antonyms to create an oxymoron.

Oxymoron Creations

Students will use real nonfiction texts to search for transition words and then consider how they are used to connect ideas.

Transition Word Hunt

Use this worksheet to help students practice understanding homophonic puns.

Homophonic Puns

Use this classic poem by Robert Louis Stevenson to introduce students to onomatopoeia.

Onomatopoeia and 'The Moon'

Write about the main idea and supporting details in this worksheet. This worksheet will help your kid organize her thoughts and describe details.

Main Idea and Details: Summer Vacation

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

Bad Hare Day Easter Puns

Use this awfully good worksheet about using an oxymoron to inspire creative writing.

Obvious Oxymoron

In this creative writing exercise, students will rewrite sentences to make them more interesting and practice adding vivid adjectives and adverbs to their writing.

Writing with Unexpected Details

In this creative writing Halloween prompt, young writers will use their imaginations to dream up their very own Halloween potion.

Creative Writing Prompt: Halloween Potion

Calculating caterpillars and capricious crayfish! Your child will be laughing as he learns some new vocabulary and practices using alliteration.

Advanced Alliteration Tongue Twisters: "C"

Help your students practice adding hyperbole into their writing.

Hunting for Hyperbole

Here's great exercise for writers of any age - building a character with supporting details! In this case, a vampire character.

Vampire Character Writing: Supporting Details

Help students understand homographic puns and how to use them.

Homographic Puns

By writing his own story in this worksheet, your child can learn to "fill in the blanks" of reading comprehension.

Mikki and the Jacket

The energizer bunny went to jail. He was charged with battery. Get it? Your students will understand after this lesson! Use this lesson to give your students tools to understand and create Easter puns.

Everybunny’s Easter Puns

Help your students become shining stars with this lesson about metaphors. Your class will hone art skills and practice comparison using figurative language.

Marvelous Metaphors


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

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