In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying metaphors as they color in the logs that contain them.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Figurative Language.

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

Your mind will burst with knowledge after completing this hyperbole activity! Turn normal skills and traits into larger-than-life abilities using exaggeration.

Help your students identify if alliteration is used in these funny sentences!

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

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.

Let's get as silly as a goose with these similes! Students will get creative as they finish simple similes with this introductory worksheet. After they finish, give them a chance to share their favorites with the class!

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.

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

Alliteration is a type of figurative language that is often used to engage a reader’s senses. Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration in context.

Kids complete sentences with idioms in this worksheet.

Are you so hungry you could eat a horse? Your students will have fun identifying the examples of hyperbole and idioms in this worksheet.

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.

Are you as quick as lightning? Learn about similes with this fun activity. Pick a simile and draw a picture to represent it.

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

Give kids a chance to think creatively about metaphors by letting them write their own! Students will stretch their imaginations and figurative language skills as they think of ways to describe their class, bedroom, and more.

Children will love coming up with creative drawings that depict common idioms literally in this engaging grammar worksheet.

Teach your students about contradictory phrases that go by the funny sounding name of "oxymoron." After your students match two words together to make oxymorons, they’ll write their own creative sentences using this fun figurative language

Children practice identifying and interpreting one type of figurative language, similes, in nine sample sentences.

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

Children will discover how figurative language can enliven writing in this fun cut-and-paste worksheet.

Children will practice bringing excitement to their writing in this fun figurative language worksheet.

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

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

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