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

Introduce your students to vocabulary words that will strengthen their descriptive writing!

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

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

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

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.

If your students need support in matching obscure words with the deeper meaning, invite them to use the clues on this worksheet to match words and phrases with their corresponding meanings.

Students will learn common animal sound words in different languages!

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

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

BOOM! This worksheet is full of all kinds of sound-based words, from creaks to squeaks.

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

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.

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!

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.

Have fun with hyperbole in this funny fill-in story-writing worksheet!

Determine the appropriate onomatopoeia for different situations in this engaging puzzle!

After completing this worksheet, you’ll know oxymorons inside out!

Students will use their imaginations to write sentences using alliteration.

EL students will read similes and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

Get fourth and fifth graders' creativity flowing with this personification worksheet! 

Learn onomatopoeia while you experience an exciting video game quest!

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

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

Children read a passage from L. Frank Baum's classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, then answer a series of questions in this reading comprehension worksheet.

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