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

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

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

Use this resource with your students to practice using context clues to determine the meaning of idioms.

Students will learn about the history of hyperbole in literature and politics.

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

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

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

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Halloween-themed metaphors!

Have your learners practice identifying hyperboles with this fun figurative language maze.

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.

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!

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

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

This middle school worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of allusion (mythological, biblical, literary, or historical), simile, personification, or metaphor. 

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

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.

When your students read this exaggerated tale, they will find a ton of hyperboles!

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

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

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!

Practice identifying hyperbole with this engaging winter-themed figurative language maze!

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

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

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.

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.

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

Your students will infer the meaning of unknown figurative language examples by using context clues.

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.