Children work with two forms of figurative language in this grammar worksheet.

Get students thinking critically and creatively about character archetypes in the novels they’re reading with this engaging reading activity!

When your students read this exaggerated tale, they will find a ton of hyperboles!

Learners will have fun honing their language and grammar skills with this fall-themed figurative language maze!

This resource makes matching idioms as easy as pie! ​Students will pair idioms based on their identical meaning.

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Halloween-themed metaphors!

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

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Valentine's Day-themed similes!

Learners discover the magic of figurative language in this reading and writing exercise.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Figurative Language.

Give your learners fun practice identifying hyperboles with this sweet figurative language maze.

Alliteration is a fun way to play with language! Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration

Your kids will have fun learning about hyperbole and writing some of their own exaggerations along the way!

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.

This poem offers a fun, memorable example for students as they learn to interpret figurative language in works of poetry and literature.

Have fun with hyperbole in this funny fill-in story-writing worksheet!

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

In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying metaphors as they color in the logs that contain them.

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

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.

Students study real examples of verbal irony, puns, personification, and allusions in context with this middle grades worksheet! 

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.

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!

As quiet as a mouse or as quiet as a cucumber? Kids will learn the definition of a simile, then use pictures as clues to complete the similes.

Give kids a chance to think creatively about metaphors by letting them write their own! Students will stretch their imaginations and figurative language skills as they think of ways to describe their class, bedroom, and more.

This middle school worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of allusion (mythological, biblical, literary, or historical), simile, personification, or metaphor. 

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.