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2nd - 4th Grade Common Core Figurative Language Worksheets

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with this worksheet featuring summer-themed similes!

Figurative Language Maze: Summer Similes

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

BOOM! This worksheet is full of all kinds of sound-based words, from creaks to squeaks.

What is Onomatopoeia?

Students will learn to identify and interpret similes, metaphors, and personification in writing.

Figurative Language Practice

Students hone their ability to spot literary devices with this fun, winter-themed figurative language maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Winter Similes

Help your students understand figurative language as they practice identifying homonyms!

Fun with Puns

In this fun worksheet, students will get to practice using both homophones and homonyms as they identify and write puns!

Puzzling Puns

Use this worksheet to provide students with even more practice using both homophones and homonyms as they identify and write their own puns!

More Puzzling Puns

Students will get even better at creating punny sentences as they use homonyms!

More Fun with Puns

If someone loses their glasses, are they as blind as a bee or a bat? This fill-in-the-blank worksheet introduces your child to popular similes.

Similes: Easy as Pie

Learners will have fun honing their language and grammar skills with this fall-themed figurative language maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Fall Similes

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

Metaphors and Similes

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

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

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

Examples of Hyperbole! Part 1

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

Figurative Language: Idioms

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.

Similes: Clear as Crystal

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

What Is an Idiom?

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

Glossary: Figurative Language

Search this puzzle for animal onomatopoeias. An onomatopoeia is a word that imitates the sound that it&#39;s describing. These words are sounds made by animals!

Animal Onomatopoeias

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

What Is a Metaphor?

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

Review: Metaphors and Similes

Introduce your students to these common English idioms, used in the context of a sentence.

Idioms in Context

Alliteration is a fun way to play with language! Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration

Figurative Language: Identifying Alliteration

Examples of Hyperbole! Part 2

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

Idioms: Picture This!

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

Identify the Idiom

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.

Figurative Language: Alliteration in Poetry

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!

Silly Similes

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

Idioms: Tell Us What You Think!

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2nd - 4th Grade Common Core Figurative Language Worksheets

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