Middle school students will uncover the blueprints of every legendary tale as they learn, identify, and draw symbols for six different plot archetypes!

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

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!

Your students will have fun identifying the homophones in these hilarious puns!

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

This grammar worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of figurative language in context, including similes, metaphors, idioms, and personification.

Children will practice bringing excitement to their writing in this fun figurative language worksheet.

Engage your students with food puns to excite their appetites and brains!

Children work with two forms of figurative language in this grammar worksheet.

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.

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

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

How is a grapefruit like a moon? They are both round! Students will identify which items are being compared in a metaphor, then describe one way they are alike.

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

Children will discover how figurative language can enliven writing in this fun cut-and-paste worksheet.

Children work with two forms of figurative language in this grammar worksheet.

Listen to burgers sizzle and rain patter in this camping-themed onomatopoeia worksheet, designed for fourth and fifth graders!

Make a splash with this summer-themed figurative language worksheet for fourth and fifth graders!

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

Learn onomatopoeia while you experience an exciting video game quest!

Children will practice bringing excitement to their writing in this fun figurative language worksheet.

Use this resource with your students to practice using context clues to determine the meaning of idioms.

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

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

Learners use their background knowledge and sentence-based context clues to determine the meaning of more common allusions.

In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying metaphors as they color in the logs that contain them.

This middle school worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of allusion (mythological, biblical, literary, or historical), simile, personification, or metaphor. 

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