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2nd - 8th Grade 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

Practice analyzing figurative language in context with this excerpt from C.S. Lewis&rsquo;s classic fantasy novel, <em>The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe</em>!

Targeted Reading Skills Practice: Figurative Language in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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?

Practice identifying metaphors with this fun, summer-themed figurative language maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Summer Metaphors

Learn all about the history of candles with this two-page nonfiction reading worksheet!

Informational Reading Comprehension: History of the Candle

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

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


Metaphors 1

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

Use this original fiction story to give learners practice analyzing story elements, making inferences, and growing their vocabulary using context clues and word relationships.

Reading Comprehension: Lost and Found

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


Similes 2

Students read and analyze an excerpt from E. Nesbit&rsquo;s 1906 novel, The Railway Children, in this four-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Reading Comprehension: Excerpt Adapted From The Railway Children

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

Introduce students to the classic poem “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll with this seventh-grade reading comprehension worksheet!

Analyzing Poetry: Jabberwocky

Students compare and contrast two fables in this eighth-grade reading comprehension worksheet!

Reading Comprehension: “King Chameleon and the Animals” and “The Hare and the Tortoise”

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


Similes 3

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