Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Sense of Metaphors.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Sense of Metaphors.

Kids complete sentences with idioms in this worksheet.

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

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

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

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

Learners will practice identifying and decoding figurative language as they read and decipher five practice sentences.

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

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

Become the greatest hyperbole detective the world has ever seen in this extra-exaggerative worksheet!

Practice using personification with this autumnal worksheet created for fifth through eighth graders!

Write an eloquent, nature-inspired personification poem with this guided worksheet for seventh graders!

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

Don’t let allusions be your Achilles’ heel—practice interpreting and writing them with this seventh- and eighth-grade worksheet!