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

Help your EL students use linking words to write similes!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Similes with Linking Words.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Similes with Linking Words.

Learners will practice identifying and decoding figurative language as they read and decipher five practice sentences.

Having fun with words and sounds! Extend your students’ experience with onomatopoeia by giving them words to sort and asking them to identify how an author could use specific words in their writing.

Become as clever as a fox as you learn to identify and interpret similes and metaphors!

These 24 cards will introduce your students to common sound words!

Students will learn to identify personification using nouns and verbs as signal words!

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

These similes got mixed up! With this simile worksheet, students will choose from a selection of words to complete the scrambled similes.

Search this puzzle for animal onomatopoeias. An onomatopoeia is a word that imitates the sound that it's describing. These words are sounds made by animals!

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

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.

Oxymorons are seriously fun business! Your fifth graders will have fun making oxymorons by matching contradictory words, as well as crafting unique sentences as they practice using these antithetical phrases in their writing.

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!

Students will play with words as they explore a variety of oxymorons in this fun worksheet. As kids identify these contradictory terms and integrate them into sentences, they’ll see how figurative language can add humor and intrigue to their writing

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!

Why is the math book so sad? It has too many problems! Help your students bring puns to life by having them create visuals to represent the play on words. Kids will have a blast reading the puns and making their own illustrations to accompany them.

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

Your kids will have fun learning about hyperbole and writing some of their own exaggerations along the way!

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

Assess your students’ knowledge of the eight most common types of figurative language.

Learn about common patterns in storytelling with this middle-grade worksheet!

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

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

Unmask the cast of every story with this worksheet for middle schoolers on character archetypes!

Get a taste of verbal irony with this figurative language worksheet in which students study the definitions and examples of sarcasm, exaggeration, and understatement.

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