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!

EL students will read similes and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

How is a grapefruit like a moon? They are both round! Students will identify which items are being compared in a metaphor, then describe one way they are alike.

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

Give your students a case of the giggles with twelve funny pun cards that use similar sounding words and phrases to create double meaning.

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.

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

In this worksheet, students will read Carl Sandburg's poem "Fog," then analyze the poem for figurative language.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Students will read metaphors and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

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