In this grammar worksheet, learners will enjoy writing what each idiom means figuratively, then drawing a picture to illustrate its meaning.

This exercise will get your students inferring the meaning of unknown metaphors.

Examine the theme of beauty while reading and analyzing two different poems in this two-page worksheet for middle grades! 

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

Alliteration is a fun way to play with language! Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration

Students hone their ability to spot literary devices with this fun, winter-themed figurative language maze!

Give your students experience with reading and analyzing primary sources with this powerful excerpt from the memoir of Frederick Douglass.

Try a crossword puzzle where all the answers are opposites of their clues!

Middle school writers practice rewriting sentences using personification to add description and make the sentences more exciting!

Read Aesop's classic fable, then answer a few reading comprehension questions.

Grammar enthusiasts and baseball fans will enjoy identifying the adjectives—and the nouns they describe—in this engaging parts of speech worksheet.

Learners discover the magic of figurative language in this reading and writing exercise.

Let your young writer relax by practicing writing notes to friends, journal entries, and even a grocery list!

Children will learn how to make subjects and verbs agree, and then practice completing ten sentences with the correct verb, in this appealing grammar worksheet.

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

In this vocabulary-building worksheet, students will read several short paragraphs and identify and match familiar words with their lesser known synonyms.

In this reading comprehension worksheet, learners compare and contrast two poems, focusing on structure, tone, and literary devices used in each.

In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying metaphors as they color in the logs that contain them.

Alliteration is a type of figurative language that is often used in poetry. Use this classic poem with your students to practice identifying alliteration in context.

Introduce readers to the poem "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by William Butler Yeats with this poetry analysis worksheet!
 

Students identify word parts, including prefixes, base words, and suffixes, in this third-grade grammar worksheet!

Introduce readers to the poem “O Captain! My Captain!” by American poet Walt Whitman with this seventh-grade reading comprehension worksheet! 

Get students thinking critically and creatively about character archetypes in the novels they’re reading with this engaging reading activity!

Learners use their background knowledge and sentence-based context clues to determine the meaning of more common allusions.

Students study real examples of verbal irony, puns, personification, and allusions in context with this middle grades worksheet! 

Help first graders overcome their grammar gripes with this worksheet all about identifying verbs!

In this engaging reading comprehension worrksheet, learners read an original two-page story and answer a set of comprehension questions.

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

As quiet as a mouse or as quiet as a cucumber? Kids will learn the definition of a simile, then use pictures as clues to complete the similes.

This resource makes matching idioms as easy as pie! ​Students will pair idioms based on their identical meaning.