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5th Grade Figurative Language Resources : Page 4

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

Kids categorize metaphors by type in this sorting game.

Muggo's Brain: Sorting Metaphors

It's time to change boring to extraordinary with hyperbole magic! Your fifth graders will enjoy rewriting simple statements using hyperbole to exaggerate. Once they finish, they will be the smartest students in the world.

Write Your Own Hyperboles #1

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

Write Your Own Hyperboles

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

Let's Have Pun!

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

With this worksheet, your fifth graders will add feeling to their writing by using hyperbole. Hyperbole is an extreme exaggeration that adds emphasis and humor for extra effect. Once they complete this worksheet, they will be masters of hyperbole.

Write Your Own Hyperboles #2

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

Wild and Wonderful Alliteration

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

Make an Animal Metaphor

It's time to let loose and get silly with this fun figurative language exercise! This worksheet will let your students stretch their creativity as they practice using homonyms to write their own puns.

Create a Pun 2

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

Glossary: An Introduction to Onomatopoeia

Help your budding wordsmiths develop their figurative language skills with this fun pun activity! This is a great worksheet for students to practice identifying and using homophones as they work to create their very own puns!

Pun with Homophones

Challenge your students to write sentences using alliteration!

More Creative Alliteration

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

Let's Play with Alliteration

Help students understand homographic puns and how to use them.

Homographic Puns

This graphic organizer helps your students examine descriptive adjectives and nouns.

T-Chart: Descriptive Adjectives and Nouns

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

Bad Hare Day Easter Puns

In this worksheet, children will read five sentences, underlining the word that is an example of onomatopoeia.

Look for the Sounds

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

Identifying Personification with Nouns and Verbs

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

Eggsciting Easter Puns

Have fun with figurative language with these Halloween exaggerations that are sure to spook your students! They will enjoy the chance to write their own hyperboles with these over-the-top sentences.

Halloween Hyperboles

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Similes with Linking Words.

Glossary: Similes with Linking Words

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

Let's Have Even More Pun!

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

Dino Bones: Understanding Idioms

Use this organizer to help students track examples of hyperbole.

Hyperbole Tracker

An oxymoron is a figure of speech made up of words with very different meanings. In this creative writing activity, students will put their figurative language skills to the test as they craft a story using some catchy contradictory phrases!

Oh My Oxymoron #2

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

Glossary: Making Sense of Metaphors

Why is the math book so sad? It has too many problems! Help your students bring puns to life by having them create visuals to represent the play on words. Kids will have a blast reading the puns and making their own illustrations to accompany them.

Pun Art #2

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Alliteration Accessible.

Glossary: Making Alliteration Accessible

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

Dino Fishing: Complete the Idiom

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