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!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: 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.

Introduce your students to some common English idioms and their meanings.

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

Use this worksheet to review figurative language! Students will write what they think each idiom on this worksheet means.

Kids complete sentences with idioms in this worksheet.

Children practice identifying and interpreting one type of figurative language, similes, in nine sample sentences.

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!

In this exercise, students will use linking verbs to write metaphors with support.

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

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

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

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.

Have some fun with the alphabet as you learn all about alliteration! Create an alliteration for every letter of the alphabet.

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

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

Ideal for fourth and fifth graders, this worksheet includes figurative language examples and definitions on the first page, and a second full page of questions and tasks that can be used to check for understanding.

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

Introduce learners to this fun form of figurative language with this entertaining worksheet.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Idioms.

Help your students practice identifying and writing alliterative sentences

Silly sentences will have your students smiling! Use this resource with your students to practice writing silly sentences with alliteration.

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

This fun worksheet is an appealing way for students to see how hyperboles can add joy and humor to the writing process.

Search this puzzle for animal onomatopoeias. An onomatopoeia is a word that imitates the sound that it's describing. These words are sounds made by animals!