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Figurative Language Handout
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Figurative Language Handout
Fifth Grade
Figurative Language
Help students learn and remember key types of figurative language with this convenient handout!
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Figurative Language Handout
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Figurative Language Handout
Help students learn and remember key types of figurative language with this convenient handout!
Fifth Grade
Figurative Language
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What is Onomatopoeia?
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What is Onomatopoeia?
Third Grade
Figurative Language
BOOM! This worksheet is full of all kinds of sound-based words, from creaks to squeaks.
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What is Onomatopoeia?
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What is Onomatopoeia?
BOOM! This worksheet is full of all kinds of sound-based words, from creaks to squeaks.
Third Grade
Figurative Language
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Similes: Easy as Pie
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Similes: Easy as Pie
Second Grade
Figurative Language
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.
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Similes: Easy as Pie
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Similes: Easy as Pie
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.
Second Grade
Figurative Language
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Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #2
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Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #2
Third Grade
Figurative Language
Children work with two forms of figurative language in this grammar worksheet.
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Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #2
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Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #2
Children work with two forms of figurative language in this grammar worksheet.
Third Grade
Figurative Language
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Figurative Language: Identifying Alliteration
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Figurative Language: Identifying Alliteration
Third Grade
Figurative Language
Alliteration is a fun way to play with language! Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration
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Figurative Language: Identifying Alliteration
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Figurative Language: Identifying Alliteration
Alliteration is a fun way to play with language! Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration
Third Grade
Figurative Language
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Review: Metaphors and Similes
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Review: Metaphors and Similes
Fourth Grade
Figurative Language
Learners discover the magic of figurative language in this reading and writing exercise.
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Review: Metaphors and Similes
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Review: Metaphors and Similes
Learners discover the magic of figurative language in this reading and writing exercise.
Fourth Grade
Figurative Language
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Hyperbole in Poetry
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Hyperbole in Poetry
Fifth Grade
Figurative Language
This poem offers a fun, memorable example for students as they learn to interpret figurative language in works of poetry and literature.
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Hyperbole in Poetry
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Hyperbole in Poetry
This poem offers a fun, memorable example for students as they learn to interpret figurative language in works of poetry and literature.
Fifth Grade
Figurative Language
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What Is a Metaphor?
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What Is a Metaphor?
Third Grade
Figurative Language
In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying metaphors as they color in the logs that contain them.
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What Is a Metaphor?
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What Is a Metaphor?
In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying metaphors as they color in the logs that contain them.
Third Grade
Figurative Language
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Figurative Language: Alliteration in Poetry
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Figurative Language: Alliteration in Poetry
Third Grade
Figurative Language
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.
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Figurative Language: Alliteration in Poetry
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Figurative Language: Alliteration in Poetry
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.
Third Grade
Figurative Language
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Idioms: Tell Us What You Think!
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Idioms: Tell Us What You Think!
Third Grade
Figurative Language
Use this worksheet to review figurative language! Students will write what they think each idiom on this worksheet means.
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Idioms: Tell Us What You Think!
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Idioms: Tell Us What You Think!
Use this worksheet to review figurative language! Students will write what they think each idiom on this worksheet means.
Third Grade
Figurative Language
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Similes: Clear as Crystal
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Similes: Clear as Crystal
Third Grade
Figurative Language
As quiet as a mouse or as quiet as a cucumber? Kids will learn the definition of a simile, then use pictures as clues to complete the similes.
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Similes: Clear as Crystal
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Similes: Clear as Crystal
As quiet as a mouse or as quiet as a cucumber? Kids will learn the definition of a simile, then use pictures as clues to complete the similes.
Third Grade
Figurative Language
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Identical Idioms
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Identical Idioms
Fifth Grade
Figurative Language
This resource makes matching idioms as easy as pie! Students will pair idioms based on their identical meaning.
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Identical Idioms
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Identical Idioms
This resource makes matching idioms as easy as pie! Students will pair idioms based on their identical meaning.
Fifth Grade
Figurative Language
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Hyperbole Story
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Hyperbole Story
Fifth Grade
Figurative Language
Have fun with hyperbole in this funny fill-in story-writing worksheet!
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Hyperbole Story
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Hyperbole Story
Have fun with hyperbole in this funny fill-in story-writing worksheet!
Fifth Grade
Figurative Language
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Silly Similes
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Silly Similes
Second Grade
Figurative Language
Let's get as silly as a goose with these similes! Students will get creative as they finish simple similes with this introductory worksheet. After they finish, give them a chance to share their favorites with the class!
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Silly Similes
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Silly Similes
Let's get as silly as a goose with these similes! Students will get creative as they finish simple similes with this introductory worksheet. After they finish, give them a chance to share their favorites with the class!
Second Grade
Figurative Language
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Glossary: Figurative Language
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Glossary: Figurative Language
Second Grade
Vocabulary
Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Figurative Language.
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Glossary: Figurative Language
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Glossary: Figurative Language
Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Figurative Language.
Second Grade
Vocabulary
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Idioms: Explaining Literal and Nonliteral Language
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Idioms: Explaining Literal and Nonliteral Language
Third Grade
Figurative Language
In this two-page worksheet, learners will use context clues to decipher the meaning of idioms used on literal and non-literal contexts.
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Idioms: Explaining Literal and Nonliteral Language
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Idioms: Explaining Literal and Nonliteral Language
In this two-page worksheet, learners will use context clues to decipher the meaning of idioms used on literal and non-literal contexts.
Third Grade
Figurative Language
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Idioms in Context
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Idioms in Context
Fourth Grade
Figurative Language
Introduce your students to these common English idioms, used in the context of a sentence.
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Idioms in Context
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Idioms in Context
Introduce your students to these common English idioms, used in the context of a sentence.
Fourth Grade
Figurative Language
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Idioms: Picture This!
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Idioms: Picture This!
Third Grade
Figurative Language
Introduce your students to some common English idioms and their meanings.
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Idioms: Picture This!
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Idioms: Picture This!
Introduce your students to some common English idioms and their meanings.
Third Grade
Figurative Language
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Puns with Idioms
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Puns with Idioms
Fifth Grade
Figurative Language
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!
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Puns with Idioms
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Puns with Idioms
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!
Fifth Grade
Figurative Language
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Analyzing a Passage from The Wizard of Oz
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Analyzing a Passage from The Wizard of Oz
Fifth Grade
Reading
Children read a passage from L. Frank Baum's classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, then answer a series of questions in this reading comprehension worksheet.
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Analyzing a Passage from The Wizard of Oz
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Analyzing a Passage from The Wizard of Oz
Children read a passage from L. Frank Baum's classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, then answer a series of questions in this reading comprehension worksheet.
Fifth Grade
Reading
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Metaphors
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Metaphors
Fifth Grade
Figurative Language
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.
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Metaphors
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Metaphors
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.
Fifth Grade
Figurative Language
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Literal and Nonliteral Language
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Literal and Nonliteral Language
Third Grade
Figurative Language
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!
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Literal and Nonliteral Language
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Literal and Nonliteral Language
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!
Third Grade
Figurative Language
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Making Sense of Figurative Language 2
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Making Sense of Figurative Language 2
Third Grade
Figurative Language
Children practice identifying and interpreting one type of figurative language, similes, in nine sample sentences.
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Making Sense of Figurative Language 2
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Making Sense of Figurative Language 2
Children practice identifying and interpreting one type of figurative language, similes, in nine sample sentences.
Third Grade
Figurative Language
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Fun with Food Puns #1
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Fun with Food Puns #1
Fifth Grade
Figurative Language
Engage your students with food puns to excite their appetites and brains!
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Fun with Food Puns #1
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Fun with Food Puns #1
Engage your students with food puns to excite their appetites and brains!
Fifth Grade
Figurative Language
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Metaphors in Poetry
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Metaphors in Poetry
Fifth Grade
Reading
In this worksheet, students will read Carl Sandburg's poem "Fog," then analyze the poem for figurative language.
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Metaphors in Poetry
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Metaphors in Poetry
In this worksheet, students will read Carl Sandburg's poem "Fog," then analyze the poem for figurative language.
Fifth Grade
Reading
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All About Metaphors
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All About Metaphors
Fifth Grade
Figurative Language
This worksheet is a slam dunk for metaphors! Your young writer will learn what makes up a metaphor, and then practice making a few of their own.
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All About Metaphors
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All About Metaphors
This worksheet is a slam dunk for metaphors! Your young writer will learn what makes up a metaphor, and then practice making a few of their own.
Fifth Grade
Figurative Language
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Figurative Language: Alliteration Sentences
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Figurative Language: Alliteration Sentences
Third Grade
Figurative Language
Successful students set sail with alliteration! Use this resource with your students to practice writing sentences using alliteration.
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Figurative Language: Alliteration Sentences
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Figurative Language: Alliteration Sentences
Successful students set sail with alliteration! Use this resource with your students to practice writing sentences using alliteration.
Third Grade
Figurative Language
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Writing Metaphors with Linking Verbs
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Writing Metaphors with Linking Verbs
Fourth Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
In this exercise, students will use linking verbs to write metaphors with support.
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Writing Metaphors with Linking Verbs
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Writing Metaphors with Linking Verbs
In this exercise, students will use linking verbs to write metaphors with support.
Fourth Grade
Grammar and Mechanics
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Mixed-Up Idioms
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Mixed-Up Idioms
Second Grade
Figurative Language
In this grammar worksheet, learners will enjoy writing what each idiom means figuratively, then drawing a picture to illustrate its meaning.
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Mixed-Up Idioms
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Mixed-Up Idioms
In this grammar worksheet, learners will enjoy writing what each idiom means figuratively, then drawing a picture to illustrate its meaning.
Second Grade
Figurative Language
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Hyperbole
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Hyperbole
Fourth Grade
Figurative Language
Your mind will burst with knowledge after completing this hyperbole activity! Turn normal skills and traits into larger-than-life abilities using exaggeration.
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Hyperbole
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Hyperbole
Your mind will burst with knowledge after completing this hyperbole activity! Turn normal skills and traits into larger-than-life abilities using exaggeration.
Fourth Grade
Figurative Language
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