5th - 8th Grade Descriptive Language Educational Resources

Give your students a chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this engaging picture prompt! 

Give students an opportunity to flex their descriptive writing muscles with another engaging picture prompt!

Students have another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Take mystery and suspenseful writing to the next level with this worksheet! Students can revise sentences and then use this exercise to make their own writing more evocative. Use this worksheet to practice adding vivid details to sentences.

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

Introduce your students to eight common types of figurative language with this colorful exercise.

This worksheet will help your child understand what similes are, and she'll even get to use her imagination to write some of her own!

This grammar worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of figurative language in context, including similes, metaphors, idioms, and personification.

Make writing magical with metaphors! Beginning writers can practice creating their own metaphors with this sheet as a guide.

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

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, learners will select and draw an animal to represent each season, then write a short paragraph describing one of the animals.

Upper grade students practice using transitions to craft clear and cohesive writing.