5th Grade Figurative Language Resources : Page 3

Learners will practice identifying and decoding figurative language as they read and decipher five practice sentences.

Get ready for some serious fun! Your students will be amused as they learn to identify oxymorons in sentences. Then, they will write their own.

Young writers will work with animal metaphors as they plan and craft a poem about someone they know.

Students will learn to identify personification using nouns and verbs as signal words!

If your students need more practice with onomatopoeia, this worksheet will provide them with examples of common animal sounds and related contexts.

Puns offer kids the chance to have fun with figurative language! Your students will giggle as they find homophones in each of these silly puns.

Introduce your students to visual puns with these fun images! Then, challenge them to come up with their own visual puns.

Use these wacky sentences to help your students recognize alliteration as they read.

Your students will love getting creative as they turn ordinary statements into hyperboles.

What do you call a pig that does karate? A pork chop! This figurative language worksheet gives your students a chance to create art to represent puns. Kids will have fun reading the puns and making their own illustrations to accompany them!

In this reading and writing worksheet about the poem “A Nation’s Strength” by William Ralph Emerson, students will use their understanding of figurative language to identify and define metaphors and difficult vocabulary.

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.

Students will love reading these wacky sentences to practice recognizing alliteration as they read.

When your students read this silly poem, they will find examples of hyperbole. Then, they will make a connection to another language concept: superlatives!

Get plenty of practice with alliteration by identifying and creating alliterative sentences.

Use this worksheet to help students practice understanding homophonic puns.

In this fun worksheet, students will get to practice using both homophones and homonyms as they identify and write puns!

Students will look at hilarious puns and how they use homonyms and homophones.

Give your students a case of the giggles with twelve funny pun cards that use similar sounding words and phrases to create double meaning.

This is a hilarious worksheet for students to dive into as they hone their figurative language skills! Young wordsmiths will practice identifying the differences between homonyms and homophones as they analyze puns.

Let’s exaggerate! Hyperboles are a fun way for students to spice up their writing.

Help your students practice adding hyperbole into their writing.

Help your students use homonyms to write their own puns as they practice using figurative language with this fun activity!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Sense of Metaphors.

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

Help students understand homographic puns and how to use them.