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2nd - 8th Grade Descriptive Language Worksheets

Give your students a chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this engaging picture prompt!&nbsp;

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #1

Give students an opportunity to flex their descriptive writing muscles with another engaging picture prompt!

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #2

Use this word bank to identify 10 alternatives for the words &quot;said,&quot; &quot;sad,&quot; and &quot;went.

Creating Word Banks

Give students another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring picture prompt!

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #7

Learn the secret ingredient to a well-organized paragraph in this fun writing exercise!

Paragraph Sandwich

Introduce your students to eight common types of figurative language with this colorful exercise.

What Is Figurative Language?

Students have another chance to flex their descriptive writing muscles with this inspiring&nbsp;picture prompt!

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #3

This grammar worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of figurative language in context, including similes, metaphors, idioms, and personification.

Figurative Language in Context #1

In this assessment, students will apply their language arts knowledge to a broad set of problems.

Mixed Review Language Arts Assessment: Let's Soar in Grade 4

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #11

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #6

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #5

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #9

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #4

Use this resource with your students to practice making connections between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will identify the relationships between words and their meanings.

Working with Analogies

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #13

This volcano writing worksheet is a great brainstorm starter and provides a different approach to composition, perfect for research-based writing.

Volcano Writing Scene

Take mystery and suspenseful writing to the next level with this worksheet! Students can revise sentences and then use this exercise to make their own writing more evocative. Use this worksheet to practice adding vivid details to sentences.

Narrative Writing: Add Sensory Details

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #10

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #8

Flex your superhuman writing abilities with a fun prompt! If you could be a superhero, what power would you want to have?

My Super Power

Descriptive Writing: Picture Prompt #12

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

Assonance and Consonance

Children must complete the missing parts of the story in this fun creative writing exercise.

Complete the Story: Fiona's Bad Day

Feelings and emotions can be a bridge to naming details and helping students identify details to use in their writing.

Elaborating on Feelings

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

Working with Analogies 2

Students complete a figurative language flip chart from the mnemonic device I SHAMPOO C.

Flipchart: I SHAMPOO C

In this creative writing exercise, students will rewrite sentences to make them more interesting and practice adding vivid adjectives and adverbs to their writing.

Writing with Unexpected Details

Fourth graders can practice writing and storytelling in this creative writing exercise based on a make-believe pet dinosaur!

Creative Writing for Kids: Pet Dinosaur

This worksheet offers fun figurative language practice for young readers and writers.

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