Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Similes with Linking Words.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Similes with Linking Words.

Ooh, onomatopoeia! This is a word that mimics a sound: like the "slurp" of spaghetti, a dog's "woof", or comic book sounds like "crash", "bam" and "bang".

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

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!

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

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.

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

Become as clever as a fox as you learn to identify and interpret similes and metaphors!

These 24 cards will introduce your students to common sound words!

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

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

These similes got mixed up! With this simile worksheet, students will choose from a selection of words to complete the scrambled similes.

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!

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

Metaphors are imaginative ways to describe something by comparing that thing to something else. With this worksheet, students will write a metaphor for each pair of given words.

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.

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.

An oxymoron is a figure of speech made up of words with very different meanings. In this creative writing activity, students will put their figurative language skills to the test as they craft a story using some catchy contradictory phrases!

Students will play with words as they explore a variety of oxymorons in this fun worksheet. As kids identify these contradictory terms and integrate them into sentences, they’ll see how figurative language can add humor and intrigue to their writing

Students will get to play with words as they explore a variety of oxymorons in this seriously fun worksheet! As kids explain the meaning of these contradictory terms, they’ll learn how figurative language can add humor and intrigue to their writing!

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

Why is the math book so sad? It has too many problems! Help your students bring puns to life by having them create visuals to represent the play on words. Kids will have a blast reading the puns and making their own illustrations to accompany them.

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

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

Determine the appropriate onomatopoeia for different situations in this engaging puzzle!