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5th Grade Figurative Language Resources : Page 3

Engage your students with food puns to excite their appetites and brains!

Fun with Food Puns #1

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

Wacky Alliteration

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

Obvious Oxymoron

Learners gain familiarity with common expressions in this fun game all about figurative language!

Dino Bones: Understanding Idioms

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

Visual Puns

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.

Puns with Homophones #2

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!

Pun Art #1

This worksheet is a beast! That's a metaphor, and your child will be writing their own metaphors in no time, then they can use them in a poem.

Animal Metaphors

Students will use their imaginations to write sentences using alliteration.

Creative Alliteration

Students will get even better at creating punny sentences as they use homonyms!

More Fun with Puns

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

Humongous Hyperboles

Help kids learn about similes with this sorting game.

Sorting Similes in Muggo's Brain

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

Hyperbole

Give your students exposure to funny puns related to animals!

Animal Puns

Use this worksheet to help students practice understanding homophonic puns.

Homophonic Puns

Ideal for fourth and fifth graders, this worksheet includes figurative language examples and definitions on the first page, and a second full page of questions and tasks that can be used to check for understanding.

Fall Figurative Language Task Cards

Kids categorize metaphors by type in this sorting game.

Muggo's Brain: Sorting Metaphors

Students will laugh as they practice using alliteration in this fun writing worksheet.

Let's Play with Alliteration

Wild and Wonderful Alliteration

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

Write Your Own Hyperboles

Oxymorons are seriously fun business! Your fifth graders will have fun making oxymorons by matching contradictory words, as well as crafting unique sentences as they practice using these antithetical phrases in their writing.

Oh My Oxymoron

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: An Introduction to Onomatopoeia.

Glossary: An Introduction to Onomatopoeia

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.

A Nation’s Strength

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.

What's so Punny?

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

Identifying Alliteration, Descriptive Adjectives, and Nouns

What could be more fun than using hyperbole? Adding superlatives! Your students will have fun identifying both of these figures of speech in this worksheet.

Hyperboles + Superlatives

Children use their knowledge of figurative language to complete the idioms in this fun fishing game!

Dino Fishing: Complete the Idiom

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.

Easy Easter Idioms

Students will be rolling with laughter as they read and write their own puns!

Let's Have Even More Pun!

Awfully Great Oxymorons

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