3rd and 4th Grade Figurative Language Exercises

Students will understand how to identify and use metaphors after they work through this exercise.

Introduce students to the world of idioms with this exercise that shares some of the most common expressions in the English language.

Your students will be all smiles when learning how to compare objects with this similes exercise.

Once students get underway with this Education.com exercise, learning about similes is easy as pie.

Students will have a blast playing with this exercise that shows how spelling onomatopoeias comes from real-life sounds.

Every educator eschews un-exciting educational exercises; employ this Education.com exercise for an entertaining and eventful lesson on alliteration!

Students will finally have a name to describe the “dog ate my homework” storytelling that runs rampant throughout childhood with this hyperbole exercise.

Students will be as confident in writing as a Pulitzer Prize winner after completing this final exercise in the similes series.

Teach students how to use short stories to illustrate a point with this engaging exercise.