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Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

How to Write a Scary Story

Help kids learn about similes with this sorting game.

Sorting Similes in Muggo's Brain

Kids categorize similes by emotions, actions, and appearances.

Muggo's Brain: Sorting Similes

Kids help Muggo sort metaphors into emotions, actions, and appearances.

Metaphor Sorting in Muggo's Brain

Kids categorize metaphors by type in this sorting game.

Muggo's Brain: Sorting Metaphors

Explore figurative language and common expressions in this fifth-grade reading and writing game!

Dino Photoshoot: Figurative Language in Sentences

Get to know figurative language like the back of your hand with this fifth-grade learning game!

Dino Bones: Using Figurative Language in Sentences

Learners gain familiarity with common expressions in this fun game all about figurative language!

Dino Bones: Understanding Idioms

Children use their knowledge of figurative language to complete the idioms in this fun fishing game!

Dino Fishing: Complete the Idiom

As students begin to read more sophisticated texts, understanding how authors use figurative language becomes critical. In this unit, students will revisit some of the figurative language they learned in fourth grade and also study some new ones too, including onomatopoeia, hyperbole, puns and oxymorons. Analyzing how figurative language is used in texts will help readers apply what they have learned.

Figurative Language

Words are the wondrous building blocks in language. This unit increases students’ word knowledge by introducing more challenging vocabulary and exploring how words are related. Learners will also discover some of the ways words are constructed using derivational root words, prefixes, suffixes, and compound words. Students will get to explore and create fun literary devices such as similes, idioms and metaphors.

Word Meaning 2

This literary lesson has students delving into Emily Dickinson's "The Moon was but a Chin of Gold" to find different types of figurative language. Writers will love sharpening reading comprehension skills with this poetry analysis activity.

Poetry: Figurative Language

Your little poets will love how their creative writing abilities will grow with this lesson about similes and metaphors. Students engage in fun activities to learn about similes and metaphors and write comparisons as directed.

Similes and Metaphors: Comparisons Done Right

Help your ELs learn about alliteration and practice identifying the descriptive adjectives and nouns that make up alliterative sentences. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support to the lesson Analyzing Alliteration.

Making Alliteration Accessible

Do your students understand the deeper meaning or humor behind a play on words? In this lesson, students will learn how to interpret the meaning of oxymorons and puns, identify key words, and explain the meanings!

Deeper Meanings

Here's a pun-filled lesson for your students! Ask students to apply their knowledge of puns and Adobe Spark in this maker-centered lesson. This lesson can follow the Adobe Spark: Parts, Purposes & Complexities and the Pun Visuals lessons.

Spark Post Pun

Students will be as confident in writing as a Pulitzer Prize winner after completing this final exercise in the similes series.


Similes 3

Every educator eschews un-exciting educational exercises; employ this Education.com exercise for an entertaining and eventful lesson on alliteration!


Alliteration

There’s nothing greater than a student who can appreciate a pun activity when they play one.


Help students learn how to categorize objects with this exercise that educates them about oxymorons.


Oxymoron

Students will finally have a name to describe the “dog ate my homework” storytelling that runs rampant throughout childhood with this hyperbole exercise.


Hyperbole

Teach students how to use short stories to illustrate a point with this engaging exercise.


Metaphors 2

Students will be able to creatively apply metaphors to their discussions after they complete this exercise.


Metaphors 3

Students will have a blast playing with this exercise that shows how spelling onomatopoeias comes from real-life sounds.


Onomatopoeia

Give a cultural lesson and expand your students’ vocabulary at the same time with this idioms exercise.


Idioms 2

Introduce students to the world of idioms with this exercise that shares some of the most common expressions in the English language.

Idioms 1

Your students will be all smiles when learning how to compare objects with this similes exercise.


Similes 2

Descriptive language and metaphoric phrases take the spotlight in this workbook. Kids use new vocabulary and common phrases to tackle writing skills.

Squeeze in some extra practice in word analysis, spelling, and punctuation with these engaging grammar worksheets.

Vocabulary Boosters

Students will read metaphors and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

Reading & Understanding Metaphors

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