2nd and 3rd Grade Figurative Language Worksheets

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

Use this worksheet to teach your students to write compound sentences with the support of sentence frames as they differentiate between literal and nonliteral meanings of idioms. Don’t forget the context clues!

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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