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5th Grade Figurative Language Resources : Page 4

Students will use their imaginations to write sentences using alliteration.

Creative Alliteration

Help students understand homographic puns and how to use them.

Homographic Puns

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

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

Obvious Oxymoron

This Easter worksheet will help students practice understanding the meaning of puns.

Bad Hare Day Easter Puns

Puns offer kids the chance to have fun with figurative language! Your students will giggle as they find homophones in each of these silly puns.

Puns with Homophones #2

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

Wild and Wonderful Alliteration

Let’s exaggerate! Hyperboles are a fun way for students to spice up their writing.

Humongous Hyperboles

This graphic organizer helps your students examine descriptive adjectives and nouns.

T-Chart: Descriptive Adjectives and Nouns

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

Identifying Alliteration, Descriptive Adjectives, and Nouns

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

Create a Pun

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

Kids categorize metaphors by type in this sorting game.

Muggo's Brain: Sorting Metaphors

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

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

Let's Play with Alliteration

Challenge your students to write sentences using alliteration!

More Creative Alliteration

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

Glossary: Making Alliteration Accessible

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

Make an Animal Metaphor

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: An Introduction to Onomatopoeia.

Glossary: An Introduction to Onomatopoeia

These 24 cards will introduce your students to common sound words!

Onomatopoeia Visual Glossary Cards

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

Identifying Personification with Nouns and Verbs

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

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

More Wacky Alliteration

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

Glossary: Similes with Linking Words

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

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