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3rd - 8th Grade Common Core Figurative Language Resources : Page 7

This graphic organizer helps your students examine descriptive adjectives and nouns.

T-Chart: Descriptive Adjectives and Nouns

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

Identifying Alliteration, Descriptive Adjectives, and Nouns

Help your students use homonyms to write their own puns as they practice using figurative language with this fun activity!

Create a Pun

In this reading and writing worksheet about the poem “A Nation’s Strength” by William Ralph Emerson, students will use their understanding of figurative language to identify and define metaphors and difficult vocabulary.

A Nation’s Strength

Kids categorize metaphors by type in this sorting game.

Muggo's Brain: Sorting Metaphors

It's time to change boring to extraordinary with hyperbole magic! Your fifth graders will enjoy rewriting simple statements using hyperbole to exaggerate. Once they finish, they will be the smartest students in the world.

Write Your Own Hyperboles #1

Students will laugh as they practice using alliteration in this fun writing worksheet.

Let's Play with Alliteration

Review examples of figurative language while crushing the skate park in this interactive learning game!

Dino Skateboarding: Figurative Language (Game 2)

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

Writing with Alliteration

Sort similes as emotions, actions, or appearances.

Sorting Similes

Use this worksheet for more practice identifying alliteration.

Is It Alliteration? #2

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Alliteration Accessible.

Glossary: Making Alliteration Accessible

Practice identifying figurative language terms in this fast-paced learning game! 

Dino Skateboarding: Figurative Language (Game 3)

Young writers will work with animal metaphors as they plan and craft a poem about someone they know.

Make an Animal Metaphor

Why is the math book so sad? It has too many problems! Help your students bring puns to life by having them create visuals to represent the play on words. Kids will have a blast reading the puns and making their own illustrations to accompany them.

Pun Art #2

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: An Introduction to Onomatopoeia.

Glossary: An Introduction to Onomatopoeia

Help your students practice identifying and writing alliterative sentences

Finish the Alliteration

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

Onomatopoeia Visual Glossary Cards

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

Identifying Personification with Nouns and Verbs

An oxymoron is a figure of speech made up of words with very different meanings. In this creative writing activity, students will put their figurative language skills to the test as they craft a story using some catchy contradictory phrases!

Oh My Oxymoron #2

Students will love reading these wacky sentences to practice recognizing alliteration as they read.

More Wacky Alliteration

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Similes with Linking Words.

Glossary: Similes with Linking Words

Students will play with words as they explore a variety of oxymorons in this fun worksheet. As kids identify these contradictory terms and integrate them into sentences, they’ll see how figurative language can add humor and intrigue to their writing!

Inside Out Oxymorons!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Personification Practice.

Vocabulary Cards: Personification Practice

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Sense of Metaphors.

Vocabulary Cards: Making Sense of Metaphors

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: An Introduction to Onomatopoeia.

Vocabulary Cards: An Introduction to Onomatopoeia

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Alliteration Accessible.

Vocabulary Cards: Making Alliteration Accessible

Help your budding wordsmiths develop their figurative language skills with this fun pun activity! This is a great worksheet for students to practice identifying and using homophones as they work to create their very own puns!

Pun with Homophones

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Similes with Linking Words.

Vocabulary Cards: Similes with Linking Words

Kids categorize similes by emotions, actions, and appearances.

Muggo's Brain: Sorting Similes

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