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Showing Results for determining meaning using context cues

Your students will infer the meaning of unknown figurative language examples by using context clues.

Making Sense of Figurative Language 1

Introduce your students to these common English idioms, used in the context of a sentence.

Idioms in Context

Use this resource with your students to practice using context clues to determine the meaning of idioms.

Figurative Language: Idioms

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

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

In this two-page worksheet, learners will use context clues to decipher the meaning of idioms used on literal and non-literal contexts.

Idioms: Explaining Literal and Nonliteral Language

Put all your Easter eggs in this worksheet! Help your students use the context of a sentence to discover the meaning of these Easter idioms.

Easy Easter Idioms

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

Making Sense of Figurative Language 3

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

Show Your Idioms

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!

Literal and Nonliteral Language

This Easter worksheet will help students practice understanding the meaning of puns.

Bad Hare Day Easter Puns

Use this worksheet to help students practice understanding the meaning of Easter puns.

Eggsciting Easter Puns

What does "when pigs fly" mean if pigs can't really fly? Kids use context clues to learn the meanings of common idioms on this third grade reading worksheet.

Idioms: A Figure of Speech

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

Mixed-Up Idioms

Get fourth and fifth graders&#39; creativity flowing with this personification worksheet!&nbsp;

Complete Sentences Using Personification

Alliteration is a type of figurative language that is often used in poetry. Use this classic poem with your students to practice identifying alliteration in context.

Figurative Language: Alliteration in Poetry

Students will get to play with words as they explore a variety of oxymorons in this seriously fun worksheet! As kids explain the meaning of these contradictory terms, they’ll learn how figurative language can add humor and intrigue to their writing!

Seriously Fun Oxymorons!

Use this awfully good worksheet about using an oxymoron to inspire creative writing.

Obvious Oxymoron

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

Idioms: Picture This!

This wonderful worksheet is a great way for students to practice using alliteration!

Make It Alliterate #2

This fantastically fun worksheet is a great way for students to practice using alliteration.

Make It Alliterate

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

Identify the Idiom

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

Figurative Language: Alliteration Sentences

Help your students use homonyms to write their own puns as they practice using figurative language with this fun activity!

Create a Pun

Help your students practice using two antonyms to create an oxymoron.

Oxymoron Creations

Practice using onomatopoeia like hiss, squeak, and boom in this fun language puzzle!

Onomatopoeia Crossword Puzzle #3

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

Hyperbole

Use this worksheet to provide students with even more practice using both homophones and homonyms as they identify and write their own puns!

More Puzzling Puns

Let spring blossoms teach you a lesson on personification in this cheery worksheet!

Spring Personification

In this fun worksheet, students will get to practice using both homophones and homonyms as they identify and write puns!

Puzzling Puns

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