Search 5th Grade Reading Literature Figurative Language Educational Resources

In this engaging reading comprehension worrksheet, learners read an original two-page story and answer a set of comprehension questions.

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

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

This poem offers a fun, memorable example for students as they learn to interpret figurative language in works of poetry and literature.

As quiet as a mouse or as quiet as a cucumber? Kids will learn the definition of a simile, then use pictures as clues to complete the similes.

Students will learn to identify onomatopoeia using a word bank and context clues.

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

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!

Children read a passage from L. Frank Baum's classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, then answer a series of questions in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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

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

Having fun with words and sounds! Extend your students’ experience with onomatopoeia by giving them words to sort and asking them to identify how an author could use specific words in their writing.

Students will read metaphors and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

Students will learn common animal sound words in different languages!

Your students will love getting creative as they turn ordinary statements into hyperboles.

Students will learn about the history of hyperbole in literature and politics.

In this exercise, students will use linking verbs to write metaphors with support.

In this worksheet, children read Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale The Snowdrop, reimagined here as a drama.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: An Introduction to Onomatopoeia.

If your students need more practice with onomatopoeia, this worksheet will provide them with examples of common animal sounds and related contexts.

When your students read this exaggerated tale, they will find a ton of hyperboles!

EL students will read similes and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

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.