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Invite learners to practice identifying examples of hyperbole with this fun Earth Day maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Earth Day Hyperbole

Introduce your students to vocabulary words that will strengthen their descriptive writing!

Vocabulary Builder: Descriptive Words

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

Making Sense of Figurative Language 1

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

Practice Onomatopoeia!

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

Puns with Homographs

As students begin to read more sophisticated texts, understanding how authors use figurative language becomes critical. In this unit, students will revisit some of the figurative language they learned in fourth grade and also study some new ones too, including onomatopoeia, hyperbole, puns and oxymorons. Analyzing how figurative language is used in texts will help readers apply what they have learned.

Figurative Language

Kids complete sentences with idioms in this worksheet.

Making Sense of Idioms

Give your learners fun practice identifying hyperboles with this sweet figurative language maze.

Figurative Language Maze: Valentine's Day Hyperbole

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

Making Sense of Figurative Language 2

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

Examples of Similes

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

Puns with Homophones #1

Ideal for fourth and fifth graders, this worksheet includes figurative language examples and definitions on the first page, and a second full page of questions and tasks that can be used to check for understanding.

Fall Figurative Language Task Cards

Have some fun with the alphabet as you learn all about alliteration! Create an alliteration for every letter of the alphabet.

Alphabet Alliteration

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

Teach your students about hyperbole using music! First, let them practice interpreting hyperboles. Then, play a song (or provide lyrics) and invite them to listen for an example of hyperbole.

Hip-Hop Hyperboles

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

Writing Metaphors with Linking Verbs

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.

Analyzing a Passage from The Wizard of Oz

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.

Write Your Own Metaphors

Your kids will have fun learning about hyperbole and writing some of their own exaggerations along the way!

Having Fun with Hyperbole

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

Assonance and Consonance

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

How to Write a Scary Story

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

Similes are all around us—sometimes you just need a little context to know how to decipher them! This lighthearted story about a twisted ankle contains two hidden similes. Can your students find them?

The Twisted Ankle

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.

Figurative Language: Alliteration in Context

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

Mixed-Up Idioms

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

Play on Words

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

A Retelling of Han Christian Andersen's The Snowdrop

Students will learn common animal sound words in different languages!

Animal Sounds Around the World

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

Sounds Like an Animal!

Puns offer kids the chance to have fun with figurative language! Your students will giggle as they find homophones in each of these silly puns.

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