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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Take an Earth Day-themed adventure through this figurative language maze!

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

Have fun with hyperbole in this funny fill-in story-writing worksheet!

Students make connections between classic and modern literature by identifying shared character archetypes found in each.

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

Let's get as silly as a goose with these similes! Students will get creative as they finish simple similes with this introductory worksheet. After they finish, give them a chance to share their favorites with the class!

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

Children read a passage from L. Frank Baum's classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, then answer a series of questions in this reading comprehension worksheet.

After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, students reflect on the author's use of dialogue and literary techniques to drive the story.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Figurative Language.

In this two-page worksheet, learners will use context clues to decipher the meaning of idioms used on literal and non-literal contexts.

Practice identifying metaphors with this fun, summer-themed figurative language maze!

Introduce your students to some common English idioms and their meanings.

Get a taste of verbal irony with this figurative language worksheet in which students study the definitions and examples of sarcasm, exaggeration, and understatement.

Successful students set sail with alliteration! Use this resource with your students to practice writing sentences using alliteration.

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.

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

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!

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

Kids complete sentences with idioms in this worksheet.

Children practice identifying and interpreting one type of figurative language, similes, in nine sample sentences.

Use this worksheet to teach your students to write compound sentences with the support of sentence frames as they differentiate between literal and nonliteral meanings of idioms. Don’t forget the context clues!