Put your creative side to work with this fun writing activity!

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

Middle school students will become masters at decoding characters in their favorite stories after they complete this activity!

Encourage creativity and critical thinking about the characters in The Hunger Games with this artistic extension activity!

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

Get ready, this activity transforms middle school students into experts at understanding and decoding characters in all their favorite stories!

Your mind will burst with knowledge after completing this hyperbole activity! Turn normal skills and traits into larger-than-life abilities using exaggeration.

Get students thinking critically and creatively about character archetypes in the novels they’re reading with this engaging reading activity!

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

Help your budding wordsmiths develop their figurative language skills with this fun pun activity! This is a great worksheet for students to practice identifying and using homophones as they work to create their very own puns!

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.

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

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.

Have fun with hyperbole in this funny fill-in story-writing worksheet!

Students will read metaphors and identify how the two things being compared are alike.

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

Help your writing sing with personification! Practice identifying the different examples of personification in this poem by Emily Dickinson.

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Halloween-themed metaphors!

After reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, challenge students to think about the symbolism of the costumes in the novel and get creative!

After finishing Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, give students a chance to think about the significance of the symbols used in the novel.

Children work with two forms of figurative language in this grammar worksheet.

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

Clap, splash, and zoom with this onomatopoeia crossword puzzle tailored for fourth and fifth graders!

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.

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

Middle school students will uncover the blueprints of every legendary tale as they learn, identify, and draw symbols for six different plot archetypes!

Students make connections between classic and modern literature by identifying shared character archetypes found in each.

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

Celebrate our planet with this Earth Day-themed metaphors maze!