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3rd Grade Common Core Figurative Language Resources

Students will learn to identify and interpret similes, metaphors, and personification in writing.

Figurative Language Practice

Once students get underway with this Education.com exercise, learning about similes is easy as pie.


Similes 1

If someone loses their glasses, are they as blind as a bee or a bat? This fill-in-the-blank worksheet introduces your child to popular similes.

Similes: Easy as Pie

What does "when pigs fly" mean if pigs can't really fly? Kids use context clues to learn the meanings of common idioms on this third grade reading worksheet.

Idioms: A Figure of Speech

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

Examples of Hyperbole! Part 1

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

Figurative Language: Idioms

What's a metaphor? How do you haiku? Kids will hone reading and writing skills with this book, from a simple syllable counting exercise to inventing rhymes and tangling with the Jabberwocky!

Pick a Peck of Poetry

Children will love coming up with creative drawings that depict common idioms literally in this engaging grammar worksheet.

What Is an Idiom?

Search this puzzle for animal onomatopoeias. An onomatopoeia is a word that imitates the sound that it&#39;s describing. These words are sounds made by animals!

Animal Onomatopoeias

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

Figurative Language: Identifying Alliteration

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.

Similes: Clear as Crystal

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

What Is a Metaphor?

Introduce your students to some common English idioms and their meanings.

Idioms: Picture This!

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.

Figurative Language: Alliteration in Poetry

Introduce your students to these common English idioms, used in the context of a sentence.

Idioms in Context

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!

Literal and Nonliteral Language

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

Idioms: Tell Us What You Think!

In this two-page worksheet, learners will use context clues to decipher the meaning of idioms used on literal and non-literal contexts.

Idioms: Explaining Literal and Nonliteral Language

Examples of Hyperbole! Part 2

Your students will infer the meaning of unknown figurative language examples by using context clues.

Making Sense of Figurative Language 1

Children practice identifying and interpreting one type of figurative language, similes, in nine sample sentences.

Making Sense of Figurative Language 2

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.

Figurative Language: Alliteration in Context

In this grammar worksheet, learners will enjoy writing what each idiom means figuratively, then drawing a picture to illustrate its meaning.

Mixed-Up Idioms

Students will learn common animal sound words in different languages!

Animal Sounds Around the World

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

Making Sense of Figurative Language 3

Help Muggo sort metaphors in this categorization game.

Sorting Metaphors

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

Sort similes as emotions, actions, or appearances.

Sorting Similes

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3rd Grade Common Core Figurative Language Resources

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