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

Inspire a love for creative language in fourth- and fifth-grade students!

Practice identifying hyperboles in this spring-themed maze designed for middle-grade students!

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

Discover the roadmap for your favorite stories with this middle-grade worksheet on plot archetypes!

Strengthen reading comprehension and literary analysis skills with this sixth through eighth grade foreshadowing worksheet!

Predict what will happen during the championship game with this middle-grade worksheet all about foreshadowing!

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

Don’t let allusions be your Achilles’ heel—practice interpreting and writing them with this seventh- and eighth-grade worksheet!

Make a splash with this summer-themed figurative language worksheet for fourth and fifth graders!

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

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

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

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

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

Practice using personification with this autumnal worksheet created for fifth through eighth graders!

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

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

Ideal for fourth and fifth graders, this worksheet includes figurative language examples and definitions on the first page, and a second full page of questions and tasks that can be used to check for understanding.

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.

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.

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.

As quiet as a mouse or as quiet as a cucumber? Kids will learn the definition of a simile, then use pictures as clues to complete the similes.

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

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.

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!

Learners will use their background knowledge and sentence-based context clues to determine the meaning of common allusions.