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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

If your students need support in matching obscure words with the deeper meaning, invite them to use the clues on this worksheet to match words and phrases with their corresponding meanings.

Match the Meaning

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

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

Show Your Idioms

This Easter worksheet will help students practice understanding the meaning of puns.

Bad Hare Day Easter Puns

Use this worksheet to help students practice understanding the meaning of Easter puns.

Eggsciting Easter Puns

Challenge your students to find the definitions of each homograph that give these puns their double meaning.

Puns with Homographs

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

Figurative Language: Idioms

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

Identical Idioms

Put all your Easter eggs in this worksheet! Help your students use the context of a sentence to discover the meaning of these Easter idioms.

Easy Easter Idioms

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

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

Punny Jokes

Students will get to play with words as they explore a variety of oxymorons in this seriously fun worksheet! As kids explain the meaning of these contradictory terms, they’ll learn how figurative language can add humor and intrigue to their writing!

Seriously Fun Oxymorons!

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.

Assonance and Consonance

Students will learn to identify onomatopoeia using a word bank and context clues.

Practice Onomatopoeia!

In this worksheet, children will read five sentences, underlining the word that is an example of onomatopoeia.

Look for the Sounds

Search this puzzle for onomatopoeias of animal sounds in other languages! How do they compare to the onomatopoeias you know?

Animal Sounds in Other Languages: Onomatopoeia Word Search

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

Vocabulary Boosters

Kids categorize similes by emotions, actions, and appearances.

Muggo's Brain: Sorting Similes

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

Assess your students&rsquo; knowledge of the eight most common types of figurative language.

Figurative Language: Figure It Out!

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

Let the cold winter wind guide you to personification mastery with this fourth- through sixth-grade worksheet!&nbsp;

Winter Personification

Let spring blossoms teach you a lesson on personification in this cheery worksheet!

Spring Personification

May the summer sun smile upon you as you complete this personification worksheet for fourth, fifth, and sixth graders!

Summer Personification

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

Figurative Language Practice

Help kids learn about similes with this sorting game.

Sorting Similes in Muggo's Brain

Strengthen your students' understanding of figurative language by helping them interpret visual puns! Students will use a webpage to help them understand puns in their future reading and writing endeavors.

Pun Visuals

Use this awfully good worksheet about using an oxymoron to inspire creative writing.

Obvious Oxymoron

Learners will practice identifying and decoding figurative language as they read and decipher five practice sentences.

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