5th grade Figurative Writing Printable 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!

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

Use this resource with your students to practice making connections between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will identify the relationships between words and their meanings.

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

Can you finish the analogy? Use this introductory worksheet to learn how to compare similar things using analogy.

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

This worksheet will make you as sharp as a tack! Have some fun with figures of speech and learn to write a simile.

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

In this creative writing prompt, children recall a past Thanksgiving and describe what made it so memorable.

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

Help students understand homographic puns and how to use them.

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 using two antonyms to create an oxymoron.

Use this awfully good worksheet about using an oxymoron to inspire creative writing.

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

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

Alliterations are awesome! Teach your young writer about this poetic device with this printable breakdown of alliteration.