Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Halloween-themed similes!

Use this activity to help students find and decipher metaphors in the context of short passages. Students will read the passages, record what is being compared in each, and then seek to explain the metaphors' meanings in their own words.

This is a hilarious worksheet for students to dive into as they hone their figurative language skills! Young wordsmiths will practice identifying the differences between homonyms and homophones as they analyze puns.

How is a grapefruit like a moon? They are both round! Students will identify which items are being compared in a metaphor, then describe one way they are alike.

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!

Have your learners practice identifying hyperboles with this fun figurative language maze.

Give kids a chance to think creatively about metaphors by letting them write their own! Students will stretch their imaginations and figurative language skills as they think of ways to describe their class, bedroom, and more.

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

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

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

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

Children will practice bringing excitement to their writing in this fun figurative language worksheet.

Your students will have fun identifying the homophones in these hilarious puns!

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

Children will discover how figurative language can enliven writing in this fun cut-and-paste worksheet.

If your students need more practice with onomatopoeia, this worksheet will provide them with examples of common animal sounds and related contexts.

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.

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

After finishing Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, give students a chance to think about the significance of the symbols used in the novel.

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

Are you as quick as lightning? Learn about similes with this fun activity. Pick a simile and draw a picture to represent it.

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

Many idioms are a dime a dozen. Give kids a chance to flex their figurative language skills and creativity by having them write and illustrate their very own idioms. Students will find that time really does fly when they're having fun!

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

Help your students practice using two antonyms to create an oxymoron.

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

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

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

Use this worksheet to provide students with even more practice using both homophones and homonyms as they identify and write their own puns!