Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Similes with Linking Words.

Learners will practice identifying and decoding figurative language as they read and decipher five practice sentences.

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

Clap, splash, and zoom with this onomatopoeia crossword puzzle tailored for fourth and fifth graders!

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

Having fun with words and sounds! Extend your students’ experience with onomatopoeia by giving them words to sort and asking them to identify how an author could use specific words in their writing.

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

Use context clues to guess the meaning of idioms in this figurative language worksheet!

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.

These 24 cards will introduce your students to common sound words!

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

How is a grapefruit like a moon? They are both round! Students will identify which items are being compared in a metaphor, then describe one way they are alike.

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

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.

Use this activity to help students find and decipher metaphors in the context of short passages. Students will read the passages, record what is being compared in each, and then seek to explain the metaphors' meanings in their own words.

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!

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.

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

Crash into onomatopoeia practice in this engaging worksheet!

Learn onomatopoeia while you experience an exciting video game quest!

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

Determine the appropriate onomatopoeia for different situations in this engaging puzzle!

Help students learn and remember key types of figurative language with this convenient handout!

Bring opposites together to form oxymorons in this worksheet on figurative language!

Can you hear the dogs barking and the birds chirping in the park? Study onomatopoeia in this worksheet! 

Practice using onomatopoeia like hiss, squeak, and boom in this fun language puzzle!