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3rd - 6th Grade Common Core Figurative Language Worksheets : Page 4

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

Writing Similes with Linking Words

Engage your students with food puns to excite their appetites and brains!

Fun with Food Puns #1

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

Making Sense of Figurative Language 3

Challenge your students to use what they know about idioms to find the double meaning in these silly puns. They will ‘get a kick’ out of it!

Puns with Idioms

Students will learn about the history of hyperbole in literature and politics.

Hyperboles in History

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

Is It Alliteration?

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

Metaphors in Poetry

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.

All Kinds of Sounds

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

Wacky Alliteration

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

Intense Hyperboles

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

Figurative Language: Alliteration Sentences

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

Show Your Idioms

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

Figurative Language: Silly Alliteration

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 tool.

Make a Match with Oxymorons

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.

Oh My Oxymoron

What could be more fun than using hyperbole? Adding superlatives! Your students will have fun identifying both of these figures of speech in this worksheet.

Hyperboles + Superlatives

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

The Day I Saved the World!

When your students read this silly poem, they will find examples of hyperbole. Then, they will make a connection to another language concept: superlatives!

More Hyperbole in Poetry

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

Visual Puns

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

Hilarious Hyperbole

This worksheet provides great practice for students to use alliteration in their writing.

Writing with Alliteration

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

Expressions Explained

Give your students exposure to funny puns related to animals!

Animal Puns

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

Hyperbole

Get plenty of practice with alliteration by identifying and creating alliterative sentences.

Identifying Alliteration, Descriptive Adjectives, and Nouns

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

Hard-Working Hyperbole

These 24 cards will introduce your students to common sound words!

Onomatopoeia Visual Glossary Cards

Use this worksheet to help students practice understanding homophonic puns.

Homophonic Puns

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

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Awfully Great Oxymorons

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