Children read a passage from L. Frank Baum's classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, then answer a series of questions in this reading comprehension worksheet.

After completing this worksheet, you’ll know oxymorons inside out!

Middle school students will become masters at decoding characters in their favorite stories after they complete this activity!

Unmask the cast of every story with this worksheet for middle schoolers on character archetypes!

Discover the roadmap for your favorite stories with this middle-grade worksheet on plot archetypes!

Practice using onomatopoeia like hiss, squeak, and boom in this fun language puzzle!

Your mind will burst with knowledge after completing this hyperbole activity! Turn normal skills and traits into larger-than-life abilities using exaggeration.

After finishing Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, students reflect on the author's use of dialogue and literary techniques to drive the story.

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

Children are introduced to Tennyson the Turtle, a reptile who likes to use metaphors and similes, in this appealing worksheet!

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.

Use foreshadowing to guess what will happen on this train ride!

Explore different biomes on your quest to interpret literary symbols!

Students will learn to identify onomatopoeia using a word bank and context clues.

Learn the uses of symbolic settings with this figurative language worksheet!

Practice analyzing figurative language in context with this excerpt from C.S. Lewis’s classic fantasy novel, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe!

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

Clap, splash, and zoom with this onomatopoeia crossword puzzle tailored for fourth and fifth graders!

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

Help your students practice using two antonyms to create an oxymoron.

Get ready for some serious fun! Your students will be amused as they learn to identify oxymorons in sentences. Then, they will write their own.

This worksheet is a beast! That's a metaphor, and your child will be writing their own metaphors in no time, then they can use them in a poem.