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2nd - 6th Grade Figurative Language Resources : Page 4

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.

Analyzing a Passage from The Wizard of Oz

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

Alliteration is a type of figurative language that is often used to engage a reader’s senses. Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration in context.

Figurative Language: Alliteration in Context

Search this puzzle for onomatopoeias of animal sounds in other languages! How do they compare to the onomatopoeias you know?

Animal Sounds in Other Languages: Onomatopoeia Word Search

EL students will read similes and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

Reading & Understanding Similes

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

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

Hyperbole

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

Identify the Idiom

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

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

Practice Onomatopoeia!

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

Let's Have Pun!

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

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

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

Figurative Language: Alliteration Sentences

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

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

Mixed-Up Idioms

Engage your students with food puns to excite their appetites and brains!

Fun with Food Puns #1

Students will learn common animal sound words in different languages!

Animal Sounds Around the World

This exercise will get your students inferring the meaning of unknown metaphors.

Making Sense of Figurative Language 3

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

Play on Words

As students begin to read more sophisticated texts, understanding how authors use figurative language becomes critical. In this unit, students will revisit some of the figurative language they learned in fourth grade and also study some new ones too, including onomatopoeia, hyperbole, puns and oxymorons. Analyzing how figurative language is used in texts will help readers apply what they have learned.

Figurative Language

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

Simile Scramble

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

Assonance and Consonance

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

Puns with Homographs

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Valentine&#39;s Day-themed similes!

Figurative Language Maze: Valentine's Day Similes

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

Fun with Puns

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

Glossary: Idioms

This year, third graders will be taking their vocabulary to new heights and exploring such concepts as metaphor, simile, hyperbole, and personification. This guided lesson in vocabulary and figurative language offers clear and practical definitions of new words and expressions, along with plenty of practice opportunities. Understanding vocabulary and figurative language deepens reading comprehension skills and enriches the writing process.

Word Meaning 1

Strong writing engages all five senses, and this fabulous fall-themed simile activity is the perfect way to celebrate sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.

Fall Similes

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

Is It Alliteration?

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