Browse Printable Figurative Writing Worksheets

What Is Figurative Language?

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What Is Figurative Language?

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

5th grade

Reading & Writing

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Working with Analogies

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Working with Analogies

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.

3rd grade

Reading & Writing

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Figurative Language in Context #1

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Figurative Language in Context #1

This grammar worksheet gives students a chance to study real examples of figurative language in context, including similes, metaphors, idioms, and personification.

6th grade

Reading & Writing

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Paragraph Sandwich

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Paragraph Sandwich

Learn the secret ingredient to a well-organized paragraph in this fun writing exercise!

4th grade

Reading & Writing

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Scrambled Similes

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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!

5th grade

Reading & Writing

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Mixed Review Language Arts Assessment: Let's Soar in Grade 4

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Mixed Review Language Arts Assessment: Let's Soar in Grade 4

In this assessment, students will apply their language arts knowledge to a broad set of problems.

4th grade

Reading & Writing

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Working with Analogies 2

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Working with Analogies 2

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

3rd grade

Reading & Writing

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America's Favorite Sport Is Transitioning from Baseball and Football to Soccer

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America's Favorite Sport Is Transitioning from Baseball and Football to Soccer

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

5th grade

Reading & Writing

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Story Planning Worksheet

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Story Planning Worksheet

A fictional story has many parts that require planning. Young writers will love using this planning sheet to plan out their setting, characters, problem, solution, and choose a title.

Kindergarten

Reading & Writing

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Writing Metaphors

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Writing Metaphors

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

5th grade

Reading & Writing

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Story Board

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Story Board

Young writers will love using this planning sheet to plan out their very own fairy tale. It includes sections for planning the characters, setting, and three parts of the story.

Kindergarten

Reading & Writing

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Seasons Writing Prompt

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Seasons Writing Prompt

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.

4th grade

Reading & Writing

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Writing Prompt: Stranded on a Deserted Island

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Writing Prompt: Stranded on a Deserted Island

Use this creative prompt to peek into your young writer’s imagination and cultivate their writing skills.

3rd grade

Reading & Writing

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Writing Roundup

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Writing Roundup

This worksheet bundle rounds up some writing prompts for your child to explore different writing styles.

4th grade

Reading & Writing

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Assonance and Consonance

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Assonance and Consonance

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

5th grade

Reading & Writing

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Metaphor Game

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Metaphor Game

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

5th grade

Reading & Writing

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Volcano Writing Scene

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Volcano Writing Scene

This volcano writing worksheet is a great brainstorm starter and provides a different approach to composition, perfect for research-based writing.

4th grade

Science

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Elaborating on Feelings

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Elaborating on Feelings

Feelings and emotions can be a bridge to naming details and helping students identify details to use in their writing.

3rd grade

Reading & Writing

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Onomatopoeia and 'The Moon'

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Onomatopoeia and 'The Moon'

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

5th grade

Reading & Writing

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Personification

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Personification

Learn all about the practice of personification in writing, then try it your hand at it by bringing life to some silly characters in this writing worksheet.

3rd grade

Reading & Writing

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