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

In this two-page worksheet, learners will use context clues to decipher the meaning of idioms used on literal and non-literal contexts.

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

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

Learners discover the magic of figurative language in this reading and writing exercise.

Use this worksheet to teach your students to write compound sentences with the support of sentence frames as they differentiate between literal and nonliteral meanings of idioms. Don’t forget the context clues!

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

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

Get plenty of practice with alliteration by identifying and creating alliterative sentences.

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

Use these wacky sentences to help your students recognize alliteration as they read.

Ideal for fourth and fifth graders, this worksheet includes figurative language examples and definitions on the first page, and a second full page of questions and tasks that can be used to check for understanding.

Explore different biomes on your quest to interpret literary symbols!

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

Bring opposites together to form oxymorons in this worksheet on figurative language!

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

Let spring blossoms teach you a lesson on personification in this cheery worksheet!

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

Children work with two forms of figurative language in this grammar 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!

Brush up on your figurative language skills this fall season with this engaging metaphors maze!

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

This resource makes matching idioms as easy as pie! ​Students will pair idioms based on their identical meaning.

Use this worksheet to review figurative language! Students will write what they think each idiom on this worksheet means.

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

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.