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

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What Is Figurative Language?

Descriptive language and metaphoric phrases take the spotlight in this workbook. Kids use new vocabulary and common phrases to tackle writing skills.

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Figurative Language

This worksheet offers useful practice for students learning about this figurative language device.

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Alliteration for Kids

Students complete a figurative language flip chart from the mnemonic device I SHAMPOO C.

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Flipchart: I SHAMPOO C

In this worksheet, students will read Carl Sandburg's poem "Fog," then analyze the poem for figurative language.

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Metaphors in Poetry


Similes, metaphors, and idioms are some of the most widely used literary devices in both speaking and writing. Students will review each of these and practice creating some of their own. 


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Similes, Metaphors, and Idioms of Figurative Language

Encourage young writers to create a story using tools like figurative language, adverbs, and adjectives.

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On Demand Writing: Picture Prompt

Students will practice creating sentences using both like and as, filling in the blanks with figurative language of their own.

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Similes for Kids

This printable game is a walk in the park! Get fired up for figurative language with this fun and creative metaphor game.

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Metaphor Game

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

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Assonance and Consonance

Support discussions about main ideas and summarization with these helpful language frames. This worksheet will help your students organize their thoughts and information from a nonfiction paragraph or text.

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Language Frames: Nonfiction Summary

This poem offers a fun, memorable example for students as they learn to interpret figurative language in works of poetry and literature.

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Hyperbole in Poetry

Use this creative grammar worksheet to give your child practice making sense of text message language and translating it into formal writing.

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Making Sense of Text Message Language

Help your students become shining stars with this lesson about metaphors. Your class will hone art skills and practice comparison using figurative language.

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Marvelous Metaphors

Do you want your students to have confident, informative discussions? Build student discourse and writing confidence with these comparison sentence frames! Students will use sentence and paragraph frames to practice comparing two nouns of their choice.

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Language Frames: Compare & Contrast

Unwind the complicated language of the Declaration of Independence with this paraphrasing activity!

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Paraphrase the Declaration of Independence

Young writers will use their imagination and descriptive language to tell a fictional story in this seasonal writing prompt.

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Creative Writing Prompt: Snowstorm

Use this prewriting activity to help students organize their writing and reinforce transitional language.

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Storyboard Pre-Write

Your digital native will read four text messages written in “text language” and practice their formal writing skills as they make sense of the messages.

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What Does This Text Message Mean?

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

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More Hyperbole in Poetry

Help your writers develop a voice with this worksheet. Challenge them to think about ways to express themselves with language, phrases, idioms, similes, and word choice.

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Tuning My Writing Voice

Chinese language learners match characters to pictures in this basic phrases matching activity. Students look at four lines of dialogue, then draw a line to the corresponding illustration.

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Learn Chinese: Basic Phrases Match

Help your students practice adding hyperbole into their writing.

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Hunting for Hyperbole

Help students understand homographic puns and how to use them.

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Homographic Puns

Use this classic poem by Robert Louis Stevenson to introduce students to onomatopoeia.

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Onomatopoeia and 'The Moon'

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

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Bad Hare Day Easter Puns

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

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Make an Animal Metaphor

Analogies are a way of describing the similarities between two things by comparing them.

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What Is an Analogy?

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

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Winter Hyperbole

The flying, crowing, strutting figure of Peter Pan is known to kids of all ages, but how much do we really know? In this lesson, your class will use the Peter Pan and Neverland workbook to take a closer look at Peter and his world.

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