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Try a crossword puzzle where all the answers are opposites of their clues!

Using a picture as a clue, kids put two words together to make a compound word for each item on this reading worksheet.

Children will practice bringing excitement to their writing in this fun language and vocabulary worksheet.

Can you tell the difference between a simile and a metaphor? Students will seek to distinguish between—and determine the meanings of—simple similes and metaphors with this multiple choice activity.

Kids will find the correct homophones, or words that sound the same but have different meanings. Learn the difference between "see" and "sea" in this worksheet.

Compound words are just words that are made by putting two smaller words together. With this worksheet, students will work backwards from definitions to guess the compound words and expand their vocabulary.

Learning homophones helps kids build vocabulary, comprehension, and spelling skills. Our homophones worksheet helps kids learn words like "sail" and "sale."

These similes got mixed up! With this simile worksheet, students will choose from a selection of words to complete the scrambled similes.

Challenge your beginning reader to practice making compound words! He'll match one set of words with another set to create a list of compound words.

There are many ways to figure out the meanings of unknown words. Through this worksheet, students record unknown words and find out their meaning using a variety of strategies.

Introduce your third-grade writer to sensory words with this worksheet about sorting adjectives under the correct senses.

On this reading worksheet, kids connect words in the first column to words in the second column to make compound words. Then they write the words.

Children will practice bringing excitement to their writing in this fun language and vocabulary worksheet.

Kids will make compound words out of two smaller words. Make "gold" and "fish" into "goldfish in this fun compound words worksheet.

Children practice working with synonyms by matching eight pairs of adjectives in this grammar worksheet.

Give kids a chance to think creatively about metaphors by letting them write their own! Students will stretch their imaginations and figurative language skills as they think of ways to describe their class, bedroom, and more.

This second grade reading and writing worksheet gives kids practice with homophones as they choose the correct words to complete the sentences.

Give your students practice matching up abbreviations with their corresponding words! With this worksheet, your young readers will have fun figuring out the abbreviated versions of words like April and President.

Compound words are like puzzles. In this worksheet, your students will match words to create compound words.

Work on word-building with this fun activity that doubles as an English exercise.

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?

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 skills.

In this grammar worksheet, learners will enjoy writing what each idiom means figuratively, then drawing a picture to illustrate its meaning.

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.