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Introduce your students to eight common types of figurative language with this colorful exercise.

What Is Figurative Language?

Descriptive language and metaphoric phrases take the spotlight in this workbook. Kids use new vocabulary and common phrases to tackle writing skills.

Figurative Language


Similes, metaphors, and idioms are some of the most widely used literary devices in both speaking and writing. Students will review each of these and practice creating some of their own. 


Similes, Metaphors, and Idioms of Figurative Language

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

Assonance and Consonance

These example literary responses model how to cite and explain evidence to support a claim.

How to Cite Strong Evidence: Literary Response

Encourage young writers to create a story using tools like figurative language, adverbs, and adjectives.

On Demand Writing: Picture Prompt

Students complete a figurative language flip chart from the mnemonic device I SHAMPOO C.

Flipchart: I SHAMPOO C

Students will practice creating sentences using both like and as, filling in the blanks with figurative language of their own.

Similes for Kids

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

Crafting a Thesis Statement: Literary Essay Writing

This worksheet offers useful practice for students learning about this figurative language device.

Alliteration for Kids

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

Metaphors in Poetry

Keep this study aid handy during homework time, or keep a copy in the back of your binder for classroom reference.

Literary Terms

Help your students become shining stars with this lesson about metaphors. Your class will hone art skills and practice comparison using figurative language.

Marvelous Metaphors

This printable game is a walk in the park! Get fired up for figurative language with this fun and creative metaphor game.

Metaphor Game

Support discussions about main ideas and summarization with these helpful language frames. This worksheet will help your students organize their thoughts and information from a nonfiction paragraph or text.

Language Frames: Nonfiction Summary

Use this creative grammar worksheet to give your child practice making sense of text message language and translating it into formal writing.

Making Sense of Text Message Language

This poem offers a fun, memorable example for students as they learn to interpret figurative language in works of poetry and literature.

Hyperbole in Poetry

Once students have selected a topic related to a piece of literature they have read and mapped out their argument, this lesson will help them turn their prewriting into an essay. 

Literary Argument: Drafting Your Essay

This worksheet will help your students determine whether they can construct a solid argument around a claim they have made about a story.

Literary Argument Writing: Supporting Your Claim

When writing dialogue, it's important to know where to place quotation marks and other punctuation. Get some practice with this passage from The Secret Garden.

Using Quotation Marks

Do you want your students to have confident, informative discussions? Build student discourse and writing confidence with these comparison sentence frames! Students will use sentence and paragraph frames to practice comparing two nouns of their choice.

Language Frames: Compare & Contrast

Using this lesson plan, your students will synthesize literary information by reimagining storyline outcomes. Substituting characters from their favorite texts and reimagining the effects will excite and bring your class new insights!

Mash-Up Reading Reflections!

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make a claim that they can support with strong evidence.

Cite and Explain Your Evidence #1: Literary Response

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make claims and support them with strong evidence.

Cite and Explain Your Evidence #2: Literary Response

Unwind the complicated language of the Declaration of Independence with this paraphrasing activity!

Paraphrase the Declaration of Independence

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Practice Using Transitions #2

Use this worksheet to help evaluate student summaries of texts or other presentations.

Formative Assessment: Telling Summaries

In this worksheet, young writers will read two simple descriptions, then rewrite them using more vivid verbs and adjectives.

Imagery Using Verbs and Adjectives

Bram Stoker's Dracula has inspired feelings of fear and morbid curiosity for over a century. With this lesson plan, your students will get a taste of the literary work while learning about the myth behind vampires.

Mythological Creature: Vampire

Young writers will use their imagination and descriptive language to tell a fictional story in this seasonal writing prompt.

Creative Writing Prompt: Snowstorm

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