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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

What could be more fun than using hyperbole? Adding superlatives! Your students will have fun identifying both of these figures of speech in this worksheet.

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

Alliteration is a type of figurative language that is often used to engage a reader’s senses. Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration in context.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

Students will look at hilarious puns and how they use homonyms and homophones.

Students will be rolling with laughter as they read and write their own puns!

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

Learners discover the magic of figurative language in this reading and writing exercise.

Make a splash with this summer-themed figurative language worksheet for fourth and fifth graders!

Let the cold winter wind guide you to personification mastery with this fourth- through sixth-grade worksheet!