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

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".

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.

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!

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

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

This fun worksheet is an appealing way for students to see how hyperboles can add joy and humor to the writing process.

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

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.

Give your students exposure to funny puns related to animals!

Children draw the literal meaning of a few idiomatic expressions as they consider their true social meaning.

In this worksheet, children will read five sentences, underlining the word that is an example of onomatopoeia.

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

Help your students practice identifying and writing alliterative sentences

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

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.

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

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

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

Help your budding wordsmiths develop their figurative language skills with this fun pun activity! This is a great worksheet for students to practice identifying and using homophones as they work to create their very own puns!

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

Students will be rolling with laughter as they read and write their own puns!

Have fun with figurative language with these Halloween exaggerations that are sure to spook your students! They will enjoy the chance to write their own hyperboles with these over-the-top sentences.

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

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!

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

Children will discover how figurative language can enliven writing in this fun cut-and-paste worksheet.

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