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4th - 7th Grade Common Core Figurative Language Resources : Page 7

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Similes with Linking Words.

Glossary: Similes with Linking Words

Students will play with words as they explore a variety of oxymorons in this fun worksheet. As kids identify these contradictory terms and integrate them into sentences, they’ll see how figurative language can add humor and intrigue to their writing!

Inside Out Oxymorons!

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Personification Practice.

Vocabulary Cards: Personification Practice

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Sense of Metaphors.

Vocabulary Cards: Making Sense of Metaphors

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: An Introduction to Onomatopoeia.

Vocabulary Cards: An Introduction to Onomatopoeia

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Alliteration Accessible.

Vocabulary Cards: Making Alliteration Accessible

Help your budding wordsmiths develop their figurative language skills with this fun pun activity! This is a great worksheet for students to practice identifying and using homophones as they work to create their very own puns!

Pun with Homophones

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

Vocabulary Cards: Similes with Linking Words

Kids categorize similes by emotions, actions, and appearances.

Muggo's Brain: Sorting Similes

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

Dino Bones: Using Figurative Language in Sentences

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

Make It Alliterate

Introduce learners to this fun form of figurative language with this entertaining worksheet.

Intense Hyperboles

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

Dino Fishing: Complete the Idiom

Use this organizer to help students track examples of hyperbole.

Hyperbole Tracker

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Personification Practice.

Glossary: Personification Practice

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

Make It Alliterate #2

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

Metaphor Sorting in Muggo's Brain

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

Dino Bones: Understanding Idioms

Help kids learn about similes with this sorting game.

Sorting Similes in Muggo's Brain

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

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

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

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

After completing this worksheet, you&rsquo;ll know oxymorons inside out!

Oxymorons: Opposites That Go Together

Practice identifying similes like a seasoned expert with this fun, spring-themed maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Spring Similes

Listen to burgers sizzle and rain patter in this camping-themed onomatopoeia worksheet, designed for fourth and fifth graders!

Onomatopoeia Practice: Camping Adventures

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

Read and analyze an excerpt adapted from &ldquo;The Wreck of the Golden Mary&rdquo; by Charles Dickens with this reading comprehension worksheet!

Reading Comprehension: Excerpt Adapted From The Wreck of the Golden Mary

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with this Valentine&#39;s Day-themed metaphors maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Valentine's Day Metaphors

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