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?

Get fourth and fifth graders' creativity flowing with this personification worksheet! 

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

Alliteration is a type of figurative language that is often used in poetry. Use this classic poem with your students to practice identifying alliteration in context.

Get students thinking figuratively by having them connect their understanding of metaphors and similes to the books they read in class. Students will seek out a metaphor or simile in their reading, consider the quote's context, then explain what they

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!

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

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!

Challenge your students to write sentences using alliteration!

Introduce your students to some common English idioms and their meanings.

Students will use their imaginations to write sentences using alliteration.

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

Practice using personification with this autumnal worksheet created for fifth through eighth graders!

This wonderful worksheet is a great way for students to practice using alliteration!

Students will laugh as they practice using alliteration in this fun writing worksheet.

This fantastically fun worksheet is a great way for students to practice using alliteration.

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

Successful students set sail with alliteration! Use this resource with your students to practice writing sentences using alliteration.

Middle school writers practice rewriting sentences using personification to add description and make the sentences more exciting!

Help your students use homonyms to write their own puns as they practice using figurative language with this fun activity!

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

Don’t let allusions be your white whale; master them with the help of this middle school worksheet!

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.

Use this worksheet to provide students with even more practice using both homophones and homonyms as they identify and write their own puns!

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

What could be more fun than using hyperbole? Adding superlatives! Your students will have fun identifying both of these figures of speech in this worksheet.

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

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.