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2nd - 8th Grade Common Core Figurative Language Worksheets : Page 4

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

Simile Scramble

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

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?

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

Making Sense of Figurative Language 3

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

Identify the Idiom

Children will love coming up with creative drawings that depict common idioms literally in this engaging grammar worksheet.

What Is an Idiom?

Use these wacky sentences to help your students recognize alliteration as they read.

Wacky Alliteration

Take an Earth Day-themed adventure through this figurative language maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Earth Day Similes

Kids complete sentences with idioms in this worksheet.

Making Sense of Idioms

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

Figurative Language: Alliteration Sentences

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

Assonance and Consonance

Students will learn common animal sound words in different languages!

Animal Sounds Around the World

Invite learners to practice identifying examples of hyperbole with this fun Earth Day maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Earth Day Hyperbole

Introduce your students to visual puns with these fun images! Then, challenge them to come up with their own visual puns.

Visual Puns

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

Fun with Food Puns #1

Get plenty of practice with alliteration by identifying and creating alliterative sentences.

Identifying Alliteration, Descriptive Adjectives, and Nouns

After reading <em>The Hunger Games</em> by Suzanne Collins, challenge students to think about the symbolism of the costumes in the novel and get creative!

Novel Study: The Hunger Games: Costume Symbolism

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

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

Figurative Language Maze: Valentine's Day Similes

Get ready for some serious fun! Your students will be amused as they learn to identify oxymorons in sentences. Then, they will write their own.

Seriously Funny Oxymorons

Students will play with words as they explore a variety of oxymorons in this fun worksheet. As kids identify these contradictory terms and integrate them into sentences, they’ll see how figurative language can add humor and intrigue to their writing!

Inside Out Oxymorons!

Support students&rsquo; comprehension and analysis of S.E. Hinton&rsquo;s novel <em>The Outsiders </em>with these discussion questions for chapters 9-12.

Novel Study: The Outsiders: Discussion Guide #3

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

Mixed-Up Idioms

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

Play on Words

Children will discover how figurative language can enliven writing in this fun cut-and-paste worksheet.

Rainy Day Friend Classroom Story

Metaphors are imaginative ways to describe something by comparing that thing to something else. With this worksheet, students will write a metaphor for each pair of given words.

Making Metaphors

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

Glossary: Idioms

In this engaging worksheet, learners will practice identifying, working with, and writing hyperboles.

Fun With Hyperboles

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

Puns with Homographs

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

Show Your Idioms

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