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What Is Figurative Language?

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What Is Figurative Language?

Fifth Grade

Writing

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

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What Is Figurative Language?

Worksheet

What Is Figurative Language?

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

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

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

Learners will have fun with hyperbole in this lively writing worksheet.

Learners will have fun with hyperbole in this lively writing worksheet.

Fourth Grade

Writing

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Writers' Building Blocks

Workbook

Writers' Building Blocks

Fifth Grade

Reading

Here is some basic training for every budding author. This series focuses on the pre-writing and organization stages of writing, including sequencing stories, making outlines and researching.

Workbook

Writers' Building Blocks

Workbook

Writers' Building Blocks

Here is some basic training for every budding author. This series focuses on the pre-writing and organization stages of writing, including sequencing stories, making outlines and researching.

Fifth Grade

Reading

Workbook

Working with Analogies

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Working with Analogies

Third Grade

Writing

Use this resource with your students to practice making connections between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will identify the relationships between words and their meanings.

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Working with Analogies

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Working with Analogies

Use this resource with your students to practice making connections between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will identify the relationships between words and their meanings.

Get your fifth grader to love writing with these creative writing prompts. Students will practice building stories, and can find inspiration from great authors such as Jack London or Mark Twain.

Get your fifth grader to love writing with these creative writing prompts. Students will practice building stories, and can find inspiration from great authors such as Jack London or Mark Twain.

Fifth Grade

Writing

Workbook

Superstitions: Ideas for Writing

Workbook

Superstitions: Ideas for Writing

Fourth Grade

Reading

No need to knock on wood, this book just takes a page from common superstitions to give kids great writing practice! They can consider some origins as they read and write about different beliefs.

Workbook

Superstitions: Ideas for Writing

Workbook

Superstitions: Ideas for Writing

No need to knock on wood, this book just takes a page from common superstitions to give kids great writing practice! They can consider some origins as they read and write about different beliefs.

Fourth Grade

Reading

Workbook

Comic Book Composition

Workbook

Comic Book Composition

Fifth Grade

Writing

POW! Knock writing practice out cold with this super series of creative writing sheets. Your young superhero can flex his imagination by drafting his own comic strips.

Workbook

Comic Book Composition

Workbook

Comic Book Composition

POW! Knock writing practice out cold with this super series of creative writing sheets. Your young superhero can flex his imagination by drafting his own comic strips.

This printable game is a walk in the park! Get fired up for figurative language with this fun and creative metaphor game.

This printable game is a walk in the park! Get fired up for figurative language with this fun and creative metaphor game.

Have a monstrous amount of fun with this series of ghoulish writing activities. Get acquainted with famous monsters like Frankenstein, and write a few frightful stories of your own.

Have a monstrous amount of fun with this series of ghoulish writing activities. Get acquainted with famous monsters like Frankenstein, and write a few frightful stories of your own.

Make writing magical with metaphors! Beginning writers can practice creating their own metaphors with this sheet as a guide.

Make writing magical with metaphors! Beginning writers can practice creating their own metaphors with this sheet as a guide.

Fifth Grade

Writing

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Make a Travel Journal

Activity

Make a Travel Journal

Fourth Grade

Reading

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

Activity

Make a Travel Journal

Activity

Make a Travel Journal

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

Fourth Grade

Reading

Activity

Seasons Writing Prompt

Worksheet

Seasons Writing Prompt

Third Grade

Writing

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, learners will select and draw an animal to represent each season, then write a short paragraph describing one of the animals.

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Seasons Writing Prompt

Worksheet

Seasons Writing Prompt

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, learners will select and draw an animal to represent each season, then write a short paragraph describing one of the animals.

Analogies are a way of describing the similarities between two things by comparing them.

Analogies are a way of describing the similarities between two things by comparing them.

There are hundreds of properties in rocks which you can describe, so get your geology goggles on and get ready to rock your child's science skills.

There are hundreds of properties in rocks which you can describe, so get your geology goggles on and get ready to rock your child's science skills.

Students will use real nonfiction texts to search for transition words and then consider how they are used to connect ideas.

Students will use real nonfiction texts to search for transition words and then consider how they are used to connect ideas.

Fifth Grade

Writing

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Flipchart: I SHAMPOO C

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Flipchart: I SHAMPOO C

Fifth Grade

Reading

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

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Flipchart: I SHAMPOO C

Worksheet

Flipchart: I SHAMPOO C

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

Fifth Grade

Reading

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Narrative Writing: Add Sensory Details

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Narrative Writing: Add Sensory Details

Fifth Grade

Writing

Take mystery and suspenseful writing to the next level with this worksheet! Students can revise sentences and then use this exercise to make their own writing more evocative. Use this worksheet to practice adding vivid details to sentences.

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Narrative Writing: Add Sensory Details

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Narrative Writing: Add Sensory Details

Fifth Grade

Writing

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Transition Words & Phrases: Task Cards

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Transition Words & Phrases: Task Cards

Fourth Grade

Writing

Upper grade students practice using transitions to craft clear and cohesive writing.

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Transition Words & Phrases: Task Cards

Worksheet

Transition Words & Phrases: Task Cards

Upper grade students practice using transitions to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Fourth Grade

Writing

Worksheet

Assonance and Consonance

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Assonance and Consonance

Fifth Grade

Writing

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

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Assonance and Consonance

Worksheet

Assonance and Consonance

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

Fifth Grade

Writing

Worksheet

America's Favorite Sport Is Transitioning from Baseball and Football to Soccer

Worksheet

America's Favorite Sport Is Transitioning from Baseball and Football to Soccer

Fifth Grade

Writing

Students can practice finding transition words using a sample text about the popularity of soccer that’s chock full of transitions.

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America's Favorite Sport Is Transitioning from Baseball and Football to Soccer

Worksheet

America's Favorite Sport Is Transitioning from Baseball and Football to Soccer

Students can practice finding transition words using a sample text about the popularity of soccer that’s chock full of transitions.

Fifth Grade

Writing

Worksheet

Working with Analogies 2

Worksheet

Working with Analogies 2

Third Grade

Writing

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

Worksheet

Working with Analogies 2

Worksheet

Working with Analogies 2

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

Third Grade

Writing

Worksheet

Practice Using Transitions #2

Worksheet

Practice Using Transitions #2

Fourth Grade

Writing

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

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Practice Using Transitions #2

Worksheet

Practice Using Transitions #2

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Fourth Grade

Writing

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Writing with Unexpected Details

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Writing with Unexpected Details

Fifth Grade

Writing

In this creative writing exercise, students will rewrite sentences to make them more interesting and practice adding vivid adjectives and adverbs to their writing.

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Writing with Unexpected Details

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Writing with Unexpected Details

In this creative writing exercise, students will rewrite sentences to make them more interesting and practice adding vivid adjectives and adverbs to their writing.

Fifth Grade

Writing

Worksheet

Hunting for Hyperbole

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Hunting for Hyperbole

Fifth Grade

Writing

Help your students practice adding hyperbole into their writing.

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Hunting for Hyperbole

Worksheet

Hunting for Hyperbole

Help your students practice adding hyperbole into their writing.

Use this worksheet to help students practice understanding homophonic puns.

Use this worksheet to help students practice understanding homophonic puns.

Use this word bank to identify 10 alternatives for the words "said," "sad," and "went.

Use this word bank to identify 10 alternatives for the words "said," "sad," and "went.

Fifth Grade

Writing

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Creative Writing Prompt: Halloween Potion

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Creative Writing Prompt: Halloween Potion

Third Grade

Writing

In this creative writing Halloween prompt, young writers will use their imaginations to dream up their very own Halloween potion.

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Creative Writing Prompt: Halloween Potion

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Creative Writing Prompt: Halloween Potion

In this creative writing Halloween prompt, young writers will use their imaginations to dream up their very own Halloween potion.

Third Grade

Writing

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Main Idea and Details: Summer Vacation

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Main Idea and Details: Summer Vacation

Fifth Grade

Writing

Write about the main idea and supporting details in this worksheet. This worksheet will help your kid organize her thoughts and describe details.

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Main Idea and Details: Summer Vacation

Worksheet

Main Idea and Details: Summer Vacation

Write about the main idea and supporting details in this worksheet. This worksheet will help your kid organize her thoughts and describe details.

Fifth Grade

Writing

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Complete the Story: Dotty and the Necklace

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Complete the Story: Dotty and the Necklace

Fourth Grade

Writing

The first half of Dotty's story is here, but the second half is missing! Can your child come up with her own ending to complete the page?

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Complete the Story: Dotty and the Necklace

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Complete the Story: Dotty and the Necklace

The first half of Dotty's story is here, but the second half is missing! Can your child come up with her own ending to complete the page?

Fourth Grade

Writing

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About 5th Grade Descriptive Language Resources

On Education.com, parents and teachers can find 5th grade descriptive language resources that help students enhance their writing by engaging the five senses, using figurative language such as similes and metaphors, and strengthening vocabulary with synonyms. These materials include worksheets, printable activities, and lesson plans designed to teach students how to create vivid, sensory-rich descriptions in their stories and essays.

Educators can browse digital simulations, interactive exercises, and classroom-ready sequences that support students in practicing sensory details, emotional expression, and creative storytelling. These resources provide structured guidance on using personification, comparisons, and imagery to make writing more engaging while encouraging strong sentence variety and clarity.

Parents can access printable worksheets and activity packs that promote handwriting practice, enhance word choice, and inspire young writers to use descriptive language. By providing structured practice in letter formation, vocabulary expansion, and sensory detail, these resources make journaling, storytelling, and creative writing engaging and accessible for 5th-grade learners.

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