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Introduce your students to eight common types of figurative language with this colorful exercise.

What Is Figurative Language?

Descriptive language and metaphoric phrases take the spotlight in this workbook. Kids use new vocabulary and common phrases to tackle writing skills.

Figurative Language


Similes, metaphors, and idioms are some of the most widely used literary devices in both speaking and writing. Students will review each of these and practice creating some of their own. 


Similes, Metaphors, and Idioms of Figurative Language

Students will practice writing strong leads for their literary essays.

Practice Writing a Strong Lead: Literary Essay

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

Crafting a Thesis Statement: Literary Essay Writing

This lesson will help your young writers develop a claim, or thesis, and construct an argument around it. You may have students complete the essay by continuing the process with the lesson Literary Argument Writing: Drafting Your Essay.




Literary Argument Writing: Defining Your Topic

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.

Assonance and Consonance

Encourage young writers to create a story using tools like figurative language, adverbs, and adjectives.

On Demand Writing: Picture Prompt

Help your fourth graders organize the structure of their literary essays with this graphic organizer.

Literary Essay Graphic Organizer

Kids practice argument writing by taking a position on devices in the classroom.

Devices in the Classroom

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Describing the World Using Sensory Language.

Glossary: Describing the World Using Sensory Language

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Describing the World Using Sensory Language

Vocabulary Cards: Describing the World Using Sensory Language

These example literary responses model how to cite and explain evidence to support a claim.

How to Cite Strong Evidence: Literary Response

This language arts assessment will illustrate your students’ writing abilities within the persuasive writing genre.

Persuasive Writing Assessment

Your child can grab her pencils, both plain and colored, and get to work flexing her literary muscles by writing an illustrating a fairy tale.

Fairy Tale Writing Prompt

This narrative writing worksheet teaches your budding author how to use quotes. Correctly using quotes in writing comes in handy for all ages.

Using Quotes in Writing

Students will practice creating sentences using both like and as, filling in the blanks with figurative language of their own.

Similes for Kids

There are many different ways to start a story! Hone creativity and build knowledge about literary devices with these fun story starting prompts.

Different Ways to Start a Story

This worksheet offers fun figurative language practice for young readers and writers.

Common Idioms

Help your child learn about sensory language as they describe an experience.

Sensory Language Practice

Use this creative grammar worksheet to give your child practice making sense of text message language and translating it into formal writing.

Making Sense of Text Message Language

Students complete a figurative language flip chart from the mnemonic device I SHAMPOO C.

Flipchart: I SHAMPOO C

This worksheet offers useful practice for students learning about this figurative language device.

Alliteration for Kids

Working on figurative language skills? Assess student understanding of simple hyperboles with this writing exercise. Your kids will be hyperbole hotshots when they've finished this worksheet!

Hyperbole Meaning

Keep this study aid handy during homework time, or keep a copy in the back of your binder for classroom reference.

Literary Terms

This engaging worksheet is a fun way to introduce a playful form of figurative language to young writers.

Helpful Hyperboles

This worksheet will help your students determine whether they can construct a solid argument around a claim they have made about a story.

Literary Argument Writing: Supporting Your Claim

Young writers will use their imagination and descriptive language to tell a fictional story in this seasonal writing prompt.

Creative Writing Prompt: Snowstorm

In this worksheet, students will read Carl Sandburg's poem "Fog," then analyze the poem for figurative language.

Metaphors in Poetry

Help your students become shining stars with this lesson about metaphors. Your class will hone art skills and practice comparison using figurative language.

Marvelous Metaphors

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