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Explore figurative language in context with this personification worksheet designed for fifth through eigth graders!&nbsp;

Personification in Context

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

Figurative Language: Idioms

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

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

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

Collect examples of personification as you read with this helpful worksheet!

Personification: Examples in Context

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

Practice Onomatopoeia!

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

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

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

Puns with Homographs

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

Identical 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

Get fourth and fifth graders&#39; creativity flowing with this personification worksheet!&nbsp;

Complete Sentences Using Personification

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

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

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!

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

Obvious Oxymoron

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

In this worksheet, children read Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale The Snowdrop, reimagined here as a drama.

A Retelling of Han Christian Andersen's The Snowdrop

Students will use their imaginations to write sentences using alliteration.

Creative Alliteration

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

Identifying Personification with Nouns and Verbs

Practice using personification with this autumnal worksheet created for fifth through eighth graders!

Personification Practice: Fall Orchard Adventures

This wonderful worksheet is a great way for students to practice using alliteration!

Make It Alliterate #2

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

Let's Play with Alliteration

This fantastically fun worksheet is a great way for students to practice using alliteration.

Make It Alliterate

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

Identify the Idiom

Successful students set sail with alliteration! Use this resource with your students to practice writing sentences using alliteration.

Figurative Language: Alliteration Sentences

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

Create a Pun

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