5th Grade English Language Arts Worksheets : Page 2

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

This worksheet is a slam dunk for metaphors! Your young writer will learn what makes up a metaphor, and then practice making a few of their own.

Students will practice using pronouns to help them understand point of view.

In this exercise, students will use linking verbs to write metaphors with support.

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

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

Students will read metaphors and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

Your students will have fun identifying the homophones in these hilarious puns!

Students will learn to identify and interpret similes, metaphors, and personification in writing.

In this worksheet, children read Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale The Snowdrop, reimagined here as a drama.

Practice identifying and using verbs in the past, present, and future tenses as well as their progressive forms.

As your students read these silly limericks, they’ll identify examples of hyperbole.

Introduce learners to this fun form of figurative language with this entertaining worksheet.

Introduce your students to analogies with this fun, fill-in-the-blank worksheet!

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

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with this worksheet featuring summer-themed similes!

This writing worksheet is a good way for learners to boost vocabulary and spelling, and it's a great tool to prepare for standardized testing.

Inspire learners to think and write creatively with this fun writing prompt about an Earth Day discovery!

Authors persuade, inform, and entertain through various types of writing! Students set out to identify the author’s purpose.

Children learn how the internet travels across the ocean through cables to create a giant, global information network in this engaging, hands-on worksheet.

Many idioms are a dime a dozen. Give kids a chance to flex their figurative language skills and creativity by having them write and illustrate their very own idioms. Students will find that time really does fly when they're having fun!

Develop reading comprehension with this video game passage. Ask your students to read the excerpt, then answer questions about the main ideas and details.

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!

What’s all the buzz about beekeeping? Give students this four-page nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet to find out!

Support students’ inference skills with this targeted two-page reading worksheet. 

Dive into the world of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" with this reading comprehension page.

Assess your students’ knowledge of the eight most common types of figurative language.

Get students thinking and writing creatively with this prompt about a walk in the woods that takes an unexpected turn when the trail disappears beneath the snow!

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by reading about the holiday’s history and imagery!

Send a letter to your future self with this back-to-school writing prompt!