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2nd - 5th Grade Common Core Figurative Language Resources : Page 3

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

Making Sense of Figurative Language 2

Your kids will have fun learning about hyperbole and writing some of their own exaggerations along the way!

Having Fun with Hyperbole

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.

Assonance and Consonance

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.

Write Your Own Metaphors

In this exercise, students will use linking verbs to write metaphors with support.

Writing Metaphors with Linking Verbs

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.

Write Your Own Similes

Challenge your students to use what they know about idioms to find the double meaning in these silly puns. They will ‘get a kick’ out of it!

Puns with Idioms

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

Making Sense of Figurative Language 1

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!

Literal and Nonliteral Language

This poem offers a fun, memorable example for students as they learn to interpret figurative language in works of poetry and literature.

Hyperbole in Poetry

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

Mixed-Up Idioms

In this worksheet, children read Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale The Snowdrop, reimagined here as a drama.

A Retelling of Han Christian Andersen's The Snowdrop

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

Play on Words

Students will learn common animal sound words in different languages!

Animal Sounds Around the World

Students will learn to identify onomatopoeia using a word bank and context clues.

Practice Onomatopoeia!

Kids complete sentences with idioms in this worksheet.

Making Sense of Idioms

Are you so hungry you could eat a horse? Your students will have fun identifying the examples of  hyperbole and idioms in this worksheet.

Expressions Explained

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

Writing Similes with Linking Words

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

Hyperbole

Help your students identify if alliteration is used in these funny sentences!

Is It Alliteration?

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?

The Twisted Ankle

How is a grapefruit like a moon? They are both round! Students will identify which items are being compared in a metaphor, then describe one way they are alike.

Metaphors

Challenge your students to find the definitions of each homograph that give these puns their double meaning.

Puns with Homographs

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.

Metaphors in Context

Silly sentences will have your students smiling! Use this resource with your students to practice writing silly sentences with alliteration.

Figurative Language: Silly Alliteration

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.

Fall Figurative Language Task Cards

Your students will love getting creative as they turn ordinary statements into hyperboles.

Write Your Own Hyperboles

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.

Halloween Hyperboles

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

Show Your Idioms

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.

Animal Metaphors

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