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1st - 6th Grade Figurative Language Resources : Page 4

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

There’s nothing greater than a student who can appreciate a pun activity when they play one.


Kids complete sentences with idioms in this worksheet.

Making Sense of Idioms

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

Puns with Homophones #1

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

Identify the Idiom

Help students learn how to categorize objects with this exercise that educates them about oxymorons.


Oxymoron

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

Fun with Puns

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

Mixed-Up Idioms

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

These similes got mixed up! With this simile worksheet, students will choose from a selection of words to complete the scrambled similes.

Simile Scramble

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.

All Kinds of Sounds

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

Writing Similes with Linking Words

After introducing similes, give kids a chance to be creative with this writing activity! Students will have fun comparing all kinds of things of their choosing using the prompts, and you'll love watching them use and grow their figurative language skills.

Write Your Own Similes

Search this puzzle for onomatopoeias of animal sounds in other languages! How do they compare to the onomatopoeias you know?

Animal Sounds in Other Languages: Onomatopoeia Word Search

This year, third graders will be taking their vocabulary to new heights and exploring such concepts as metaphor, simile, hyperbole, and personification. This guided lesson in vocabulary and figurative language offers clear and practical definitions of new words and expressions, along with plenty of practice opportunities. Understanding vocabulary and figurative language deepens reading comprehension skills and enriches the writing process.

Word Meaning 1

Successful students set sail with alliteration! Use this resource with your students to practice writing sentences using alliteration.

Figurative Language: Alliteration Sentences

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

Puns with Homographs

Students will learn common animal sound words in different languages!

Animal Sounds Around the World

Use these wacky sentences to help your students recognize alliteration as they read.

Wacky Alliteration

Take an Earth Day-themed adventure through this figurative language maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Earth Day Similes

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

Practice Onomatopoeia!

Engage your students with food puns to excite their appetites and brains!

Fun with Food Puns #1

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Idioms.

Glossary: Idioms

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

Is It Alliteration?

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

Figurative Language Maze: Earth Day Hyperbole

This worksheet is a beast! That's a metaphor, and your child will be writing their own metaphors in no time, then they can use them in a poem.

Animal Metaphors

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

Metaphors in Poetry

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!

When your students read this silly poem, they will find examples of hyperbole. Then, they will make a connection to another language concept: superlatives!

More Hyperbole in Poetry

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

Making Sense of Figurative Language 3

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