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.

Having fun with words and sounds! Extend your students’ experience with onomatopoeia by giving them words to sort and asking them to identify how an author could use specific words in their writing.

Have a laugh (or a groan) with this fun figurative language worksheet all about puns!

Predict what will happen during the championship game with this middle-grade worksheet all about foreshadowing!

Have some fun with the alphabet as you learn all about alliteration! Create an alliteration for every letter of the alphabet.

Similes are all around us—sometimes you just need a little context to know how to decipher them! This lighthearted story about a twisted ankle contains two hidden similes. Can your students find them?

BOOM! This worksheet is full of all kinds of sound-based words, from creaks to squeaks.

Get ready, this activity transforms middle school students into experts at understanding and decoding characters in all their favorite stories!

Learn about common patterns in storytelling with this middle-grade worksheet!

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Encourage creativity and critical thinking about the characters in The Hunger Games with this artistic extension activity!

After introducing similes, give kids a chance to be creative with this writing activity! Students will have fun comparing all kinds of things of their choosing using the prompts, and you'll love watching them use and grow their figurative language ski

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

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

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!

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.

Give kids a chance to think creatively about metaphors by letting them write their own! Students will stretch their imaginations and figurative language skills as they think of ways to describe their class, bedroom, and more.

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

Teach your students about hyperbole using music! First, let them practice interpreting hyperboles. Then, play a song (or provide lyrics) and invite them to listen for an example of hyperbole.

Learn onomatopoeia while you experience an exciting video game quest!

Introduce readers to the poem “I like to see it lap the Miles” by beloved American poet Emily Dickinson.

Search this puzzle for animal onomatopoeias. An onomatopoeia is a word that imitates the sound that it's describing. These words are sounds made by animals!

This worksheet will help your child understand what similes are, and she'll even get to use her imagination to write some of her own!

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