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.

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

EL students will read similes and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

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

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

Challenge your students to use what they know about idioms to find the double meaning in these silly puns. They will ‘get a kick’ out of it!

Children will discover how figurative language can enliven writing in this fun cut-and-paste worksheet.

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

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

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

Use this worksheet to review figurative language! Students will write what they think each idiom on this worksheet means.

Challenge your students to find the definitions of each homograph that give these puns their double meaning.

Students will learn to identify onomatopoeia using a word bank and context clues.

Are you so hungry you could eat a horse? Your students will have fun identifying the examples of hyperbole and idioms in this worksheet.

Teach your students about hyperbole using music! First, let them practice interpreting hyperboles. Then, play a song (or provide lyrics) and invite them to listen for an example of hyperbole.

Get students thinking figuratively by having them connect their understanding of metaphors and similes to the books they read in class. Students will seek out a metaphor or simile in their reading, consider the quote's context, then explain what they

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

Are you as quick as lightning? Learn about similes with this fun activity. Pick a simile and draw a picture to represent it.

Take things to the extreme with this hyperbole practice sheet! Learn to use exaggeration to make your writing more descriptive.

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

Help your students understand figurative language as they practice identifying homonyms!

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

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

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.

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

Children will practice bringing excitement to their writing in this fun figurative language worksheet.

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

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

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!

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