After introducing similes, give kids a chance to be creative with this writing activity! Students will have fun comparing all kinds of things of their choosing using the prompts, and you'll love watching them use and grow their figurative language ski

Many idioms are a dime a dozen. Give kids a chance to flex their figurative language skills and creativity by having them write and illustrate their very own idioms. Students will find that time really does fly when they're having fun!

Children draw the literal meaning of a few idiomatic expressions as they consider their true social meaning.

This fantastically fun worksheet is a great way for students to practice using alliteration.

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.

Help your students practice identifying and writing alliterative sentences

If someone loses their glasses, are they as blind as a bee or a bat? This fill-in-the-blank worksheet introduces your child to popular similes.

Silly sentences will have your students smiling! Use this resource with your students to practice writing silly sentences with alliteration.

This exercise will get your students inferring the meaning of unknown metaphors.

Introduce your students to some common English idioms and their meanings.

Your students will infer the meaning of unknown figurative language examples by using context clues.

Successful students set sail with alliteration! Use this resource with your students to practice writing sentences using alliteration.

Alliteration is a fun way to play with language! Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration

Use this resource with your students to practice using context clues to determine the meaning of idioms.

Alliteration is a type of figurative language that is often used in poetry. Use this classic poem with your students to practice identifying alliteration in context.

Similes are all around us—sometimes you just need a little context to know how to decipher them! This lighthearted story about a twisted ankle contains two hidden similes. Can your students find them?

As quiet as a mouse or as quiet as a cucumber? Kids will learn the definition of a simile, then use pictures as clues to complete the similes.

Use this worksheet to teach your students to write compound sentences with the support of sentence frames as they differentiate between literal and nonliteral meanings of idioms. Don’t forget the context clues!

Metaphors are imaginative ways to describe something by comparing that thing to something else. With this worksheet, students will write a metaphor for each pair of given words.

Ooh, onomatopoeia! This is a word that mimics a sound: like the "slurp" of spaghetti, a dog's "woof", or comic book sounds like "crash", "bam" and "bang".

Children will love coming up with creative drawings that depict common idioms literally in this engaging grammar worksheet.

Use this worksheet for more practice identifying alliteration.

In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying metaphors as they color in the logs that contain them.