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

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

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

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

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

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

After reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, challenge students to think about the symbolism of the costumes in the novel and get creative!

In this engaging worksheet, learners will practice identifying, working with, and writing hyperboles.

Children will discover how figurative language can enliven writing in this fun cut-and-paste worksheet.

If your students need more practice with onomatopoeia, this worksheet will provide them with examples of common animal sounds and related contexts.

Put all your Easter eggs in this worksheet! Help your students use the context of a sentence to discover the meaning of these Easter idioms.

In this worksheet, children will read five sentences, underlining the word that is an example of onomatopoeia.

After finishing Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, give students a chance to think about the significance of the symbols used in the novel.

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

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

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

Many idioms are a dime a dozen. Give kids a chance to flex their figurative language skills and creativity by having them write and illustrate their very own idioms. Students will find that time really does fly when they're having fun!

Introduce learners to this fun form of figurative language with this entertaining worksheet.

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

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

Help your students understand figurative language as they practice identifying homonyms!

Children draw the literal meaning of a few idiomatic expressions as they consider their true social meaning.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Idioms.

Use this worksheet to provide students with even more practice using both homophones and homonyms as they identify and write their own 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!

With this worksheet, your fifth graders will add feeling to their writing by using hyperbole. Hyperbole is an extreme exaggeration that adds emphasis and humor for extra effect. Once they complete this worksheet, they will be masters of hyperbole.

Introduce your students to visual puns with these fun images! Then, challenge them to come up with their own visual puns.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Figurative Language.

In this fun worksheet, students will get to practice using both homophones and homonyms as they identify and write puns!

Get students thinking figuratively by having them connect their understanding of metaphors and similes to the books they read in class. Students will seek out a metaphor or simile in their reading, consider the quote's context, then explain what they