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Help your students develop and understanding of mature conversations with these figurative language worksheets from Education.com. Perhaps even more complex for young learners is deciphering the meaning of seemingly outdated idioms. Help boost your students’ ability to use idioms with idioms worksheets that offer both contextual background through examples and opportunities to interpret idioms through art.

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Scrambled Similes

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!

Similes: Easy as Pie

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.

Simile Scramble

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

Figurative Language Practice

Help demystify figurative language for your third grader with this worksheet that challenges him to explain what the figurative descriptions in bold mean.

Simile and Metaphor

Can you tell the difference between a simile and a metaphor? Help your star writer sort out her figurative language with a fun activity.

Making Metaphors

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.

Idioms: A Figure of Speech

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.

Idioms: Tell Us What You Think!

Use this worksheet to review figurative language! Students will write what they think each idiom on this worksheet means.

What is a Metaphor?

Using figurative language is a great way to boost your child's writing skills and creativity. With the help of this worksheet, she'll be a metaphor master.

What is Personification?

Help your writing sing with personification! Practice identifying the different examples of personification in these poems by Emily Dickinson.

Metaphors and Similes

Tennyson the Turtle provides a jolly introduction to metaphors and similes! Help your child to identify the figures of speech in this story.

Similes: Clear as Crystal

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.

Idioms in Context

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

What Is an Idiom?

Learn what an idiom is, and do some fun coloring with this informative worksheet.

All About Metaphors

This worksheet is a slam dunk for metaphors! Your young writer will learn what makes up a metaphor, and then practice making a few of her own.

Vocabulary Builder: Descriptive Words

Introduce your students to vocabulary words that will strengthen their descriptive writing!

Identify the Idiom

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

Figurative Language: Idioms

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

Review: Metaphors and Similes

Review metaphors and similes by underlining each time Paulo uses them in his postcard to Katherine. Then, students will practice writing their own!

Idioms: Picture This!

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

Examples of Similes

Are you as quick as lightning? Learn about similes with this fun activity. Pick a simile and draw a picture to represent it.

How is a grapefruit like a moon? They are both round! Students will identify which items are being compared in a metaphor, then describe one way they are alike.

Pun with Homophones

Help your budding wordsmiths develop their figurative language skills with this fun pun activity! This is a great worksheet for students to practice identifying and using homophones as they work to create their very own puns!

Alphabet Alliteration

Have some fun with the alphabet as you learn all about alliteration! Create an alliteration for every letter of the alphabet.

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