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

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

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

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

Teach your students about hyperbole using music! First, let them practice interpreting hyperboles. Then, play a song (or provide lyrics) and invite them to listen for an example of hyperbole.

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

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

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

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

Have fun with figurative language with these Halloween exaggerations that are sure to spook your students! They will enjoy the chance to write their own hyperboles with these over-the-top sentences.

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

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

Help your students practice adding hyperbole into their writing.

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!

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

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

Get students thinking figuratively by having them connect their understanding of metaphors and similes to the books they read in class. Students will seek out a metaphor or simile in their reading, consider the quote's context, then explain what they

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

Students will be rolling with laughter as they read and write their own puns!

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

In this engaging worksheet, learners will practice identifying, working with, and writing hyperboles.

Engage your students with eggciting wordplay and food puns!

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

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

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

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

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.

Help your students understand figurative language as they practice identifying homonyms!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Sense of Metaphors.