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

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.

Use this awfully good worksheet about using an oxymoron to inspire creative writing.

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

Your kids will have fun learning about hyperbole and writing some of their own exaggerations along the way!

Have some fun with the alphabet as you learn all about alliteration! Create an alliteration for every letter of the alphabet.

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

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!

Give kids a chance to think creatively about metaphors by letting them write their own! Students will stretch their imaginations and figurative language skills as they think of ways to describe their class, bedroom, and more.

Similes are all around us—sometimes you just need a little context to know how to decipher them! This lighthearted story about a twisted ankle contains two hidden similes. Can your students find them?

Teach your students about contradictory phrases that go by the funny sounding name of "oxymoron." After your students match two words together to make oxymorons, they’ll write their own creative sentences using this fun figurative language

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.

Put your creative side to work with this fun writing activity!

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

Explore figurative language in context with this personification worksheet designed for fifth through eigth graders! 

Engage your students with eggciting wordplay and food puns!

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

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

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

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.

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