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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.

If your students need support in matching obscure words with the deeper meaning, invite them to use the clues on this worksheet to match words and phrases with their corresponding meanings.

Use this resource with your students to practice using context clues to determine the meaning of idioms.

Children draw the literal meaning of a few idiomatic expressions as they consider their true social meaning.

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

This Easter worksheet will help students practice understanding the meaning of puns.

Use this worksheet to help students practice understanding the meaning of Easter puns.

Your students will infer the meaning of unknown figurative language examples by using context clues.

Challenge your students to find the definitions of each homograph that give these puns their double meaning.

This resource makes matching idioms as easy as pie! ​Students will pair idioms based on their identical meaning.

Determine the appropriate onomatopoeia for different situations in this engaging puzzle!

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

Put all your Easter eggs in this worksheet! Help your students use the context of a sentence to discover the meaning of these Easter idioms.

Challenge your students to use what they know about idioms to find the double meaning in these silly puns. They will ‘get a kick’ out of it!

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.

In this two-page worksheet, learners will use context clues to decipher the meaning of idioms used on literal and non-literal contexts.

Give your students a case of the giggles with twelve funny pun cards that use similar sounding words and phrases to create double meaning.

Students will get to play with words as they explore a variety of oxymorons in this seriously fun worksheet! As kids explain the meaning of these contradictory terms, they’ll learn how figurative language can add humor and intrigue to their writing!

Introduce your students to some common English idioms and their meanings.

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!

Introduce students to the classic poem “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll with this seventh-grade reading comprehension worksheet!

What does "when pigs fly" mean if pigs can't really fly? Kids use context clues to learn the meanings of common idioms on this third grade reading worksheet.

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!

Let the cold winter wind guide you to personification mastery with this fourth- through sixth-grade worksheet! 

Let spring blossoms teach you a lesson on personification in this cheery worksheet!

Read and answer comprehension questions about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's classic narrative poem "Paul Revere’s Ride."

May the summer sun smile upon you as you complete this personification worksheet for fourth, fifth, and sixth graders!