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5th - 8th Grade Common Core Figurative Language Resources : Page 6

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.

Write Your Own Hyperboles #1

Help students understand homographic puns and how to use them.

Homographic Puns

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

Oxymoron Creations

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

Write Your Own Hyperboles

Use this worksheet to help students practice understanding the meaning of Easter puns.

Eggsciting Easter Puns

Students will love reading these wacky sentences to practice recognizing alliteration as they read.

More Wacky Alliteration

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

Let's Play with Alliteration

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Alliteration Accessible.

Glossary: Making Alliteration Accessible

Why is the math book so sad? It has too many problems! Help your students bring puns to life by having them create visuals to represent the play on words. Kids will have a blast reading the puns and making their own illustrations to accompany them.

Pun Art #2

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

Glossary: Personification Practice

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

Metaphor Sorting in Muggo's Brain

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: Similes with Linking Words.

Vocabulary Cards: Similes with Linking Words

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

Obvious Oxymoron

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

Vocabulary Cards: Making Alliteration Accessible

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

Vocabulary Cards: Personification Practice

In this reading and writing worksheet about the poem “A Nation’s Strength” by William Ralph Emerson, students will use their understanding of figurative language to identify and define metaphors and difficult vocabulary.

A Nation’s Strength

With this worksheet, your fifth graders will add feeling to their writing by using hyperbole. Hyperbole is an extreme exaggeration that adds emphasis and humor for extra effect. Once they complete this worksheet, they will be masters of hyperbole.

Write Your Own Hyperboles #2

Students will use their imaginations to write sentences using alliteration.

Creative Alliteration

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

Make an Animal Metaphor

Introduce your students to analogies with this fun, fill-in-the-blank worksheet!

Awesome Analogies

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

Use this organizer to help students track examples of hyperbole.

Hyperbole Tracker

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

Make sure onomatopoeia clicks in your head with this engaging maze worksheet!

Follow the Path: Onomatopoeia #3

Splash into an ocean of onomatopoeia with this fun, inviting worksheet!

Follow the Path: Onomatopoeia #2

May the summer sun smile upon you as you complete this personification worksheet for fourth, fifth, and sixth graders!

Summer Personification

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