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.

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

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

It's time to change boring to extraordinary with hyperbole magic! Your fifth graders will enjoy rewriting simple statements using hyperbole to exaggerate. Once they finish, they will be the smartest students in the world.

With this worksheet, your fifth graders will add feeling to their writing by using hyperbole. Hyperbole is an extreme exaggeration that adds emphasis and humor for extra effect. Once they complete this worksheet, they will be masters of hyperbole.

Challenge your students to write sentences using alliteration!

Students will use their imaginations to write sentences using alliteration.

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

In this exercise, students will use linking verbs to write metaphors with support.

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

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

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

In this fun worksheet, students will get to practice using both homophones and homonyms as they identify and write puns!

Have some fun with the alphabet as you learn all about alliteration! Create an alliteration for every letter of the alphabet.

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

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

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.

This worksheet will help your child understand what similes are, and she'll even get to use her imagination to write some of her own!

Have fun with figurative language with these Halloween exaggerations that are sure to spook your students! They will enjoy the chance to write their own hyperboles with these over-the-top sentences.

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.

It's time to let loose and get silly with this fun figurative language exercise! This worksheet will let your students stretch their creativity as they practice using homonyms to write their own puns.

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

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!

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!

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

Practice identifying metaphors with this fun, summer-themed figurative language maze!

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

Practice identifying similes like a seasoned expert with this fun, spring-themed maze!

Discover the interesting and sometimes humorous world of oxymorons with this fun maze activity!