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.

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

Explore figurative language in context with this personification worksheet designed for fifth through eigth graders! 

Introduce your students to these common English idioms, used in the context of a sentence.

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.

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

Students study real examples of verbal irony, puns, personification, and allusions in context with this middle grades worksheet! 

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

Alliteration is a type of figurative language that is often used to engage a reader’s senses. Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration in context.

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

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.

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

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

Students will learn to identify onomatopoeia using a word bank and context clues.

This middle school worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of allusion (mythological, biblical, literary, or historical), simile, personification, or metaphor. 

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

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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!

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

Similes are all around us—sometimes you just need a little context to know how to decipher them! This lighthearted story about a twisted ankle contains two hidden similes. Can your students find them?

Get fourth and fifth graders' creativity flowing with this personification worksheet! 

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