Explore figurative language in context with this personification worksheet designed for fifth through eigth graders! 

Introduce your students to these common English idioms, used in the context of a sentence.

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.

Use context clues to guess the meaning of idioms in this figurative language worksheet!

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.

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.

Collect examples of personification as you read with this helpful worksheet!

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

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

Use this worksheet to help students practice understanding the meaning of Easter puns.

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

What does "when pigs fly" mean if pigs can't really fly? Kids use context clues to learn the meanings of common idioms on this third grade reading worksheet.

This resource makes matching idioms as easy as pie! ​Students will pair idioms based on their identical meaning.

Challenge your students to use what they know about idioms to find the double meaning in these silly puns. They will ‘get a kick’ out of it!

Get fourth and fifth graders' creativity flowing with this personification 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.

Get students thinking figuratively by having them connect their understanding of metaphors and similes to the books they read in class. Students will seek out a metaphor or simile in their reading, consider the quote's context, then explain what they

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

Challenge your students to write sentences using alliteration!

Students will use their imaginations to write sentences using alliteration.

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

Practice using personification with this autumnal worksheet created for fifth through eighth graders!

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

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

Help your students practice using two antonyms to create an oxymoron.

Practice using onomatopoeia like hiss, squeak, and boom in this fun language puzzle!

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

Use this worksheet to provide students with even more practice using both homophones and homonyms as they identify and write their own puns!

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.