Teach your students about contradictory phrases that go by the funny sounding name of "oxymoron." After your students match two words together to make oxymorons, they’ll write their own creative sentences using this fun figurative language

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!

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

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

Introduce readers to the poem “I like to see it lap the Miles” by beloved American poet Emily Dickinson.

Learners will use their background knowledge and sentence-based context clues to determine the meaning of common allusions.

Learners use their background knowledge and sentence-based context clues to determine the meaning of more common allusions.

Practice analyzing figurative language in context with this excerpt from C.S. Lewis’s classic fantasy novel, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe!

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.

BOOM! This worksheet is full of all kinds of sound-based words, from creaks to squeaks.

Listen to burgers sizzle and rain patter in this camping-themed onomatopoeia worksheet, designed for fourth and fifth graders!

Students will look at hilarious puns and how they use homonyms and homophones.

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

Help your students practice adding hyperbole into their writing.

Write an eloquent, nature-inspired personification poem with this guided worksheet for seventh graders!

Students will be rolling with laughter as they read and write their own puns!

Your students will love getting creative as they turn ordinary statements into hyperboles.

Use these wacky sentences to help your students recognize alliteration as they read.

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

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

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!

Have a laugh (or a groan) with this fun figurative language worksheet all about puns!

Children will discover how figurative language can enliven writing in this fun cut-and-paste worksheet.

Learners discover the magic of figurative language in this reading and writing exercise.

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

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

Bring opposites together to form oxymorons in this worksheet on figurative language!

Don’t let allusions be your white whale; master them with the help of this middle school worksheet!