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

Ooh, onomatopoeia! This is a word that mimics a sound: like the "slurp" of spaghetti, a dog's "woof", or comic book sounds like "crash", "bam" and "bang".

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.

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

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

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!

Metaphors are imaginative ways to describe something by comparing that thing to something else. With this worksheet, students will write a metaphor for each pair of given words.

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.

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

Students will get to play with words as they explore a variety of oxymorons in this seriously fun worksheet! As kids explain the meaning of these contradictory terms, they’ll learn how figurative language can add humor and intrigue to their writing!

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

Why is the math book so sad? It has too many problems! Help your students bring puns to life by having them create visuals to represent the play on words. Kids will have a blast reading the puns and making their own illustrations to accompany them.

Determine the appropriate onomatopoeia for different situations in this engaging puzzle!

After completing this worksheet, you’ll know oxymorons inside out!

Get fourth and fifth graders' creativity flowing with this personification worksheet! 

Crash into onomatopoeia practice in this engaging worksheet!

Learn onomatopoeia while you experience an exciting video game quest!

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Children work with two forms of figurative language in this grammar worksheet.

Children work with two forms of figurative language in this grammar worksheet.

Clap, splash, and zoom with this onomatopoeia crossword puzzle tailored for fourth and fifth graders!

Bring opposites together to form oxymorons in this worksheet on figurative language!