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5th and 6th Grade Figurative Language Worksheets : Page 3

In this exercise, students will use linking verbs to write metaphors with support.

Writing Metaphors with Linking Verbs

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

Figurative Language Maze: Valentine's Day Similes

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

Expressions Explained

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

Metaphors in Poetry

Having fun with words and sounds! Extend your students’ experience with onomatopoeia by giving them words to sort and asking them to identify how an author could use specific words in their writing.

All Kinds of Sounds

Engage your students with food puns to excite their appetites and brains!

Fun with Food Puns #1

Invite learners to practice identifying examples of hyperbole with this fun Earth Day maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Earth Day Hyperbole

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

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

Assonance and Consonance

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

Puns with Homographs

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

Writing Similes with Linking Words

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

Practice Onomatopoeia!

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

Sounds Like an Animal!

Students will learn about the history of hyperbole in literature and politics.

Hyperboles in History

Use these wacky sentences to help your students recognize alliteration as they read.

Wacky Alliteration

Your mind will burst with knowledge after completing this hyperbole activity! Turn normal skills and traits into lager-than-life abilities using exaggeration.

Hyperbole

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

Figurative Language Maze: Valentine's Day Hyperbole

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

Play on Words

After finishing Mildred D. Taylor&rsquo;s <em>Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry</em>, give students a chance to think about the significance of the symbols used in the novel.

Novel Study: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Exploring Symbols

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

Identifying Alliteration, Descriptive Adjectives, and Nouns

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

Visual Puns

Get ready for some serious fun! Your students will be amused as they learn to identify oxymorons in sentences. Then, they will write their own.

Seriously Funny Oxymorons

When your students read this exaggerated tale, they will find a ton of hyperboles!

The Day I Saved the World!

This worksheet is a beast! That's a metaphor, and your child will be writing their own metaphors in no time, then they can use them in a poem.

Animal Metaphors

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

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.

Hip-Hop Hyperboles

Awfully Great Oxymorons

Your students will love getting creative as they turn ordinary statements into hyperboles.

Write Your Own Hyperboles

Oxymorons are seriously fun business! Your fifth graders will have fun making oxymorons by matching contradictory words, as well as crafting unique sentences as they practice using these antithetical phrases in their writing.

Oh My Oxymoron

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

Glossary: Making Sense of Metaphors

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