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1st - 6th Grade Figurative Language Worksheets : Page 5

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Similes with Linking Words.

Glossary: Similes with Linking Words

Students will play with words as they explore a variety of oxymorons in this fun worksheet. As kids identify these contradictory terms and integrate them into sentences, they’ll see how figurative language can add humor and intrigue to their writing!

Inside Out Oxymorons!

Get students thinking figuratively by having them connect their understanding of metaphors and similes to the books they read in class. Students will seek out a metaphor or simile in their reading, consider the quote's context, then explain what they thin

Metaphor and Simile Search

Get ready for some serious fun! Your students will be amused as they learn to identify oxymorons in sentences. Then, they will write their own.

Seriously Funny Oxymorons

In this engaging worksheet, learners will practice identifying, working with, and writing hyperboles.

Fun With Hyperboles

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

Figurative Language Maze: Valentine's Day Hyperbole

Help students understand homographic puns and how to use them.

Homographic Puns

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Idioms.

Vocabulary Cards: Idioms

Use this worksheet to help students practice understanding homophonic puns.

Homophonic Puns

Awfully Great Oxymorons

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.

Puns with Homophones #2

Take things to the extreme with this hyperbole practice sheet! Learn to use exaggeration to make your writing more descriptive.

What is Hyperbole?

Many idioms are a dime a dozen. Give kids a chance to flex their figurative language skills and creativity by having them write and illustrate their very own idioms. Students will find that time really does fly when they're having fun!

My Own Idiom

Give your students a case of the giggles with twelve funny pun cards that use similar sounding words and phrases to create double meaning.

Punny Jokes

Your students will love getting creative as they turn ordinary statements into hyperboles.

Write Your Own Hyperboles

Students will learn to identify personification using nouns and verbs as signal words!

Identifying Personification with Nouns and Verbs

Put all your Easter eggs in this worksheet! Help your students use the context of a sentence to discover the meaning of these Easter idioms.

Easy Easter Idioms

Let’s exaggerate! Hyperboles are a fun way for students to spice up their writing.

Humongous Hyperboles

This graphic organizer helps your students examine descriptive adjectives and nouns.

T-Chart: Descriptive Adjectives and Nouns

Oxymorons are seriously fun business! Your fifth graders will have fun making oxymorons by matching contradictory words, as well as crafting unique sentences as they practice using these antithetical phrases in their writing.

Oh My Oxymoron

What do you call a pig that does karate? A pork chop! This figurative language worksheet gives your students a chance to create art to represent puns. Kids will have fun reading the puns and making their own illustrations to accompany them!

Pun Art #1

It's time to change boring to extraordinary with hyperbole magic! Your fifth graders will enjoy rewriting simple statements using hyperbole to exaggerate. Once they finish, they will be the smartest students in the world.

Write Your Own Hyperboles #1

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 tool.

Make a Match with Oxymorons

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

What could be more fun than using hyperbole? Adding superlatives! Your students will have fun identifying both of these figures of speech in this worksheet.

Hyperboles + Superlatives

Students will learn about the history of hyperbole in literature and politics.

Hyperboles in History

Help your students practice adding hyperbole into their writing.

Hunting for Hyperbole

Help your students practice using two antonyms to create an oxymoron.

Oxymoron Creations

As your students read these silly limericks, they’ll identify examples of hyperbole.

Wacky Limericks

Help your students use homonyms to write their own puns as they practice using figurative language with this fun activity!

Create a Pun

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