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

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

Learners discover the magic of figurative language in this reading and writing exercise.

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

Students will learn about the history of hyperbole in literature and politics.

Learners will use their background knowledge and sentence-based context clues to determine the meaning of common allusions.

Students hone their ability to spot literary devices with this fun, winter-themed figurative language maze!

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Halloween-themed metaphors!

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

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

This middle school worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of allusion (mythological, biblical, literary, or historical), simile, personification, or metaphor. 

Students make connections between classic and modern literature by identifying shared character archetypes found in each.

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.

When your students read this exaggerated tale, they will find a ton of hyperboles!

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

Practice identifying hyperbole with this engaging winter-themed figurative language maze!

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

Your kids will have fun learning about hyperbole and writing some of their own exaggerations along the way!

Use this activity to help students find and decipher metaphors in the context of short passages. Students will read the passages, record what is being compared in each, and then seek to explain the metaphors' meanings in their own words.

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.

Learners use their background knowledge and sentence-based context clues to determine the meaning of more common allusions.

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.

Encourage creativity and critical thinking about the characters in The Hunger Games with this artistic extension activity!

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

Children will practice bringing excitement to their writing in this fun figurative language worksheet.

Give kids a chance to think creatively about metaphors by letting them write their own! Students will stretch their imaginations and figurative language skills as they think of ways to describe their class, bedroom, and more.

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