Glossary: Using Adjectives and Similes to Describe.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Making Sense of Metaphors.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Similes with Linking Words.

This grammar worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of figurative language in context, including similes, metaphors, idioms, and personification.

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.

Are you as quick as lightning? Learn about similes with this fun activity. Pick a simile and draw a picture to represent it.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Using Adjectives and Similes to Describe.

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.

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

Learners will have fun honing their language and grammar skills with this fall-themed figurative language maze!

How is a grapefruit like a moon? They are both round! Students will identify which items are being compared in a metaphor, then describe one way they are alike.

Students hone their ability to spot literary devices with this fun, winter-themed figurative language maze!

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

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

Take an Earth Day-themed adventure through this figurative language maze!

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

Let your figurative language skills blossom with this middle-grade springtime metaphor maze! 

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

Children practice identifying and interpreting one type of figurative language, similes, in nine sample sentences.

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

Young writers will work with animal metaphors as they plan and craft a poem about someone they know.

Help your writers develop a voice with this worksheet. Challenge them to think about ways to express themselves with language, phrases, idioms, similes, and word choice.

Practice identifying hyperbole with this engaging winter-themed figurative language maze!

Invite learners to practice identifying examples of hyperbole with this fun Earth Day maze!

Assess your students’ knowledge of the eight most common types of figurative language.

Have your learners practice identifying hyperboles with this fun figurative language maze.

Have your learners practice identifying hyperboles with this fun, seasonal figurative language maze.

Use this worksheet to review figurative language! Students will write what they think each idiom on this worksheet means.

Give your learners fun practice identifying hyperboles with this sweet figurative language maze.

Ideal for fourth and fifth graders, this worksheet includes figurative language examples and definitions on the first page, and a second full page of questions and tasks that can be used to check for understanding.