Figurative Language Worksheets : Page 5

EL students will read similes and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

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 tool.

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

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Idioms.

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

Puns offer kids the chance to have fun with figurative language! Your students will giggle as they find homophones in each of these silly puns.

Use this worksheet to help students practice understanding the meaning of Easter puns.

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

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

Help your students practice adding hyperbole into their writing.

Use these wacky sentences to help your students recognize alliteration as they read.

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

Oxymorons are seriously fun business! Your fifth graders will have fun making oxymorons by matching contradictory words, as well as crafting unique sentences as they practice using these antithetical phrases in their writing.

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 thin

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

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

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

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!

Use this worksheet to help students practice understanding homophonic puns.

It's time to change boring to extraordinary with hyperbole magic! Your fifth graders will enjoy rewriting simple statements using hyperbole to exaggerate. Once they finish, they will be the smartest students in the world.

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

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!

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

Use this awfully good worksheet about using an oxymoron to inspire creative writing.

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

Help students understand homographic puns and how to use them.

Challenge your students to write sentences using alliteration!

Take things to the extreme with this hyperbole practice sheet! Learn to use exaggeration to make your writing more descriptive.