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5th Grade Common Core Figurative Language Worksheets : Page 3

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

Expressions Explained

Give your students exposure to funny puns related to animals!

Animal Puns

Your mind will burst with knowledge after completing this hyperbole activity! Turn normal skills and traits into lager-than-life abilities using exaggeration.

Hyperbole

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

Identifying Alliteration, Descriptive Adjectives, and Nouns

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

Onomatopoeia Visual Glossary Cards

Use this worksheet to help students practice understanding homophonic puns.

Homophonic Puns

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

Punny Jokes

Awfully Great Oxymorons

Have fun with figurative language with these Halloween exaggerations that are sure to spook your students! They will enjoy the chance to write their own hyperboles with these over-the-top sentences.

Halloween Hyperboles

Take things to the extreme with this hyperbole practice sheet! Learn to use exaggeration to make your writing more descriptive.

What is Hyperbole?

This worksheet is a beast! That's a metaphor, and your child will be writing their own metaphors in no time, then they can use them in a poem.

Animal Metaphors

Help your students practice adding hyperbole into their writing.

Hunting for Hyperbole

In this worksheet, children will read five sentences, underlining the word that is an example of onomatopoeia.

Look for the Sounds

What do you call a pig that does karate? A pork chop! This figurative language worksheet gives your students a chance to create art to represent puns. Kids will have fun reading the puns and making their own illustrations to accompany them!

Pun Art #1

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

Bad Hare Day Easter Puns

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

T-Chart: Descriptive Adjectives and Nouns

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: An Introduction to Onomatopoeia.

Glossary: An Introduction to Onomatopoeia

Put all your Easter eggs in this worksheet! Help your students use the context of a sentence to discover the meaning of these Easter idioms.

Easy Easter Idioms

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

Identifying Personification with Nouns and Verbs

As your students read these silly limericks, they’ll identify examples of hyperbole.

Wacky Limericks

Engage your students with eggciting wordplay and food puns!

Fun with Food Puns #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

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: An Introduction to Onomatopoeia.

Vocabulary Cards: An Introduction to Onomatopoeia

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.

Seriously Funny Oxymorons

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Sense of Metaphors.

Glossary: Making Sense of 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

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

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