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2nd - 5th Grade Common Core Figurative Language Resources

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with this worksheet featuring summer-themed similes!

Figurative Language Maze: Summer Similes

Help students learn and remember key types of figurative language with this convenient handout!

Figurative Language Handout

If your students need support in matching obscure words with the deeper meaning, invite them to use the clues on this worksheet to match words and phrases with their corresponding meanings.

Match the Meaning

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!

Pun with Homophones

This is a hilarious worksheet for students to dive into as they hone their figurative language skills! Young wordsmiths will practice identifying the differences between homonyms and homophones as they analyze puns.

What's so Punny?

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

Create a Pun

Students will look at hilarious puns and how they use homonyms and homophones.

Let's Have Pun!

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

Let's Have Even More Pun!

It&#39;s time to let loose and get silly with this fun figurative language exercise! This worksheet will let your students stretch their creativity as they practice using homonyms to write their own puns.

Create a Pun 2

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

Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #1

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

Figurative Language Practice

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

What is Onomatopoeia?

Assess your students&rsquo; knowledge of the eight most common types of figurative language.

Figurative Language: Figure It Out!

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


Similes 1

Learners will have fun honing their language and grammar skills with this fall-themed figurative language maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Fall Similes

This worksheet will help your child understand what similes are, and she&#39;ll even get to use her imagination to write some of her own!

Scrambled Similes

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


Similes 2

Students hone their ability to spot literary devices with this fun, winter-themed figurative language maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Winter Similes

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.

Similes: Easy as Pie

Give a cultural lesson and expand your students’ vocabulary at the same time with this idioms exercise.


Idioms 2

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


Metaphors 2

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


Similes 3

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

Idioms 1

Practice analyzing poetry with&nbsp;one of Emily Dickinson&rsquo;s most popular poems!

Analyzing Poetry:  “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers" by Emily Dickinson

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

Fun with Puns

Children are introduced to Tennyson the Turtle, a reptile who likes to use metaphors and similes, in this appealing worksheet!

Metaphors and Similes

Students will be able to creatively apply metaphors to their discussions after they complete this exercise.


Metaphors 3

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.

Simile or Metaphor

Descriptive language and metaphoric phrases take the spotlight in this workbook. Kids use new vocabulary and common phrases to tackle writing skills.

Figurative Language

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.

Idioms: A Figure of Speech

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2nd - 5th Grade Common Core Figurative Language Resources

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