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Try a crossword puzzle where all the answers are opposites of their clues!

Using a picture as a clue, kids put two words together to make a compound word for each item on this reading worksheet.

Children will practice bringing excitement to their writing in this fun language and vocabulary worksheet.

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.

Give your students practice matching up abbreviations with their corresponding words! With this worksheet, your young readers will have fun figuring out the abbreviated versions of words like April and President.

Kids will find the correct homophones, or words that sound the same but have different meanings. Learn the difference between "see" and "sea" in this worksheet.

Kids will make compound words out of two smaller words. Make "gold" and "fish" into "goldfish in this fun compound words worksheet.

Introduce your third-grade writer to sensory words with this worksheet about sorting adjectives under the correct senses.

Children will practice bringing excitement to their writing in this fun language and vocabulary worksheet.

After introducing similes, give kids a chance to be creative with this writing activity! Students will have fun comparing all kinds of things of their choosing using the prompts, and you'll love watching them use and grow their figurative language skills.

Similes are all around us—sometimes you just need a little context to know how to decipher them! This lighthearted story about a twisted ankle contains two hidden similes. Can your students find them?

Challenge your beginning reader to practice making compound words! He'll match one set of words with another set to create a list of compound words.

Compound words are just words that are made by putting two smaller words together. With this worksheet, students will work backwards from definitions to guess the compound words and expand their vocabulary.

This worksheet will give your young readers practice identifying words that can be abbreviated and replacing them with the correct abbreviation for the word.

There are many ways to figure out the meanings of unknown words. Through this worksheet, students record unknown words and find out their meaning using a variety of strategies.

Abbreviations help keep things short and sweet! Give your second graders practice identifying common abbreviations with this fun matching activity in which students draw lines to match words to their abbreviations.

Use this activity to help students find and decipher metaphors in the context of short passages. Students will read the passages, record what is being compared in each, and then seek to explain the metaphors' meanings in their own words.

Give kids a chance to think creatively about metaphors by letting them write their own! Students will stretch their imaginations and figurative language skills as they think of ways to describe their class, bedroom, and more.

Let's get as silly as a goose with these similes! Students will get creative as they finish simple similes with this introductory worksheet. After they finish, give them a chance to share their favorites with the class!

On this reading worksheet, kids connect words in the first column to words in the second column to make compound words. Then they write the words.

This second grade reading and writing worksheet gives kids practice with homophones as they choose the correct words to complete the sentences.

This football-themed word search is a great way to help score a touchdown in spelling and sports vocabulary!

Children practice working with synonyms by matching eight pairs of adjectives in this grammar worksheet.

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