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

Determine the Meaning of Common Allusions

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

Determine the Meaning of Common Allusions #2

If your students need support in matching obscure words with the deeper meaning, invite them to use the clues on this worksheet to match words and phrases with their corresponding meanings.

Match the Meaning

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

Figurative Language: Idioms

Do your students understand the deeper meaning or humor behind a play on words? In this lesson, students will learn how to interpret the meaning of oxymorons and puns, identify key words, and explain the meanings!

Deeper Meanings

This year, third graders will be taking their vocabulary to new heights and exploring such concepts as metaphor, simile, hyperbole, and personification. This guided lesson in vocabulary and figurative language offers clear and practical definitions of new words and expressions, along with plenty of practice opportunities. Understanding vocabulary and figurative language deepens reading comprehension skills and enriches the writing process.

Word Meaning 1

Words are the wondrous building blocks in language. This unit increases students’ word knowledge by introducing more challenging vocabulary and exploring how words are related. Learners will also discover some of the ways words are constructed using derivational root words, prefixes, suffixes, and compound words. Students will get to explore and create fun literary devices such as similes, idioms and metaphors.

Word Meaning 2

Children draw the literal meaning of a few idiomatic expressions as they consider their true social meaning.

Show Your Idioms

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

Making Sense of Figurative Language 3

This Easter worksheet will help students practice understanding the meaning of puns.

Bad Hare Day Easter Puns

Use this worksheet to help students practice understanding the meaning of Easter puns.

Eggsciting Easter Puns

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

Making Sense of Figurative Language 1

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

Puns with Homographs

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

Identical Idioms

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

Onomatopoeia Crossword Puzzle #2

In this grammar worksheet, learners will enjoy writing what each idiom means figuratively, then drawing a picture to illustrate its meaning.

Mixed-Up Idioms

Put all your Easter eggs in this worksheet! Help your students use the context of a sentence to discover the meaning of these Easter idioms.

Easy Easter Idioms

Challenge your students to use what they know about idioms to find the double meaning in these silly puns. They will ‘get a kick’ out of it!

Puns with Idioms

Can you tell the difference between a simile and a metaphor? Students will seek to distinguish between—and determine the meanings of—simple similes and metaphors with this multiple choice activity.

Simile or Metaphor

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

Idioms: Explaining Literal and Nonliteral Language

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

Punny Jokes

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!

Seriously Fun Oxymorons!

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

Idioms: Picture This!

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!

Literal and Nonliteral Language

Help kids learn about similes with this sorting game.

Sorting Similes in Muggo's Brain

Introduce students to the classic poem “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll with this seventh-grade reading comprehension worksheet!

Analyzing Poetry: Jabberwocky

What does "when pigs fly" mean if pigs can't really fly? Kids use context clues to learn the meanings of common idioms on this third grade reading worksheet.

Idioms: A Figure of Speech

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.

Metaphors in Context

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!

Oh My Oxymoron #2

Let the cold winter wind guide you to personification mastery with this fourth- through sixth-grade worksheet!&nbsp;

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