Search Printable 5th Grade Figurative Writing Worksheets

This worksheet will help your child understand what similes are, and she'll even get to use her imagination to write some of her own!

Take mystery and suspenseful writing to the next level with this worksheet! Students can revise sentences and then use this exercise to make their own writing more evocative. Use this worksheet to practice adding vivid details to sentences.

Introduce your students to eight common types of figurative language with this colorful exercise.

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.

Upper grade students practice using transitions to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

The first half of Dotty's story is here, but the second half is missing! Can your child come up with her own ending to complete the page?

Write about the main idea and supporting details in this worksheet. This worksheet will help your kid organize her thoughts and describe details.

Analogies are a way of describing the similarities between two things by comparing them.

Students complete a figurative language flip chart from the mnemonic device I SHAMPOO C.

In this nonfiction writing worksheet, learners will select and draw an animal to represent each season, then write a short paragraph describing one of the animals.

Students can practice finding transition words using a sample text about the popularity of soccer that’s chock full of transitions.

Students will use real nonfiction texts to search for transition words and then consider how they are used to connect ideas.

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Use this classic poem by Robert Louis Stevenson to introduce students to onomatopoeia.

Students will practice creating sentences using both like and as, filling in the blanks with figurative language of their own.

In this creative writing exercise, students will rewrite sentences to make them more interesting and practice adding vivid adjectives and adverbs to their writing.

Make writing magical with metaphors! Beginning writers can practice creating their own metaphors with this sheet as a guide.

This printable game is a walk in the park! Get fired up for figurative language with this fun and creative metaphor game.

Use this worksheet to help students practice understanding homophonic puns.

Children are invited to plan their ideal Thanksgiving in this creative writing exercise.

Help your students practice adding hyperbole into their writing.

This worksheet offers useful practice for students learning about this figurative language device.

Help your students practice using two antonyms to create an oxymoron.