Use this activity to help students find and decipher metaphors in the context of short passages. Students will read the passages, record what is being compared in each, and then seek to explain the metaphors' meanings in their own words.

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!

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

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

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

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.

Kids complete sentences with idioms in this worksheet.

Help your students identify if alliteration is used in these funny sentences!

After introducing similes, give kids a chance to be creative with this writing activity! Students will have fun comparing all kinds of things of their choosing using the prompts, and you'll love watching them use and grow their figurative language ski

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

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!

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

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

Engage your students with eggciting wordplay and food puns!

Are you so hungry you could eat a horse? Your students will have fun identifying the examples of hyperbole and idioms in this worksheet.

Having fun with words and sounds! Extend your students’ experience with onomatopoeia by giving them words to sort and asking them to identify how an author could use specific words in their writing.

With this worksheet, your students practice and identifying and writing hyperboles.

Teach your students about contradictory phrases that go by the funny sounding name of "oxymoron." After your students match two words together to make oxymorons, they’ll write their own creative sentences using this fun figurative language

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.

What do you call a pig that does karate? A pork chop! This figurative language worksheet gives your students a chance to create art to represent puns. Kids will have fun reading the puns and making their own illustrations to accompany them!

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

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

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

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

This worksheet is a beast! That's a metaphor, and your child will be writing their own metaphors in no time, then they can use them in a poem.

Give your students exposure to funny puns related to animals!

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

In this worksheet, children will read five sentences, underlining the word that is an example of onomatopoeia.

Children will practice bringing excitement to their writing in this fun figurative language worksheet.

Help your students practice identifying and writing alliterative sentences