After finishing Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, give students a chance to think about the significance of the symbols used in the novel.

Challenge your students to find the definitions of each homograph that give these puns their double meaning.

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

Are you as quick as lightning? Learn about similes with this fun activity. Pick a simile and draw a picture to represent it.

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

Many idioms are a dime a dozen. Give kids a chance to flex their figurative language skills and creativity by having them write and illustrate their very own idioms. Students will find that time really does fly when they're having fun!

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

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

Students will learn to identify personification using nouns and verbs as signal words!

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

Help your students understand figurative language as they practice identifying homonyms!

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

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

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

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!

With this worksheet, your fifth graders will add feeling to their writing by using hyperbole. Hyperbole is an extreme exaggeration that adds emphasis and humor for extra effect. Once they complete this worksheet, they will be masters of hyperbole.

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

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

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

Get students thinking figuratively by having them connect their understanding of metaphors and similes to the books they read in class. Students will seek out a metaphor or simile in their reading, consider the quote's context, then explain what they

Oxymorons are seriously fun business! Your fifth graders will have fun making oxymorons by matching contradictory words, as well as crafting unique sentences as they practice using these antithetical phrases in their writing.

Puns offer kids the chance to have fun with figurative language! Your students will giggle as they find homophones in each of these silly puns.

Take things to the extreme with this hyperbole practice sheet! Learn to use exaggeration to make your writing more descriptive.

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

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 students practice adding hyperbole into their writing.

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.

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!