3rd grade Figurative Language Printable Worksheets

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.

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

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.

Alliteration is a type of figurative language that is often used in poetry. Use this classic poem with your students to practice identifying alliteration in context.

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

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

Use this worksheet to teach your students how to explain the meaning of literal and nonliteral language. Don’t forget the context clues!

Successful students set sail with alliteration! Use this resource with your students to practice writing sentences using alliteration.

Alliteration is a fun way to play with language! Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration

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.

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

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

Students will learn common animal sound words in different languages!

Your students will infer the meaning of unknown figurative language examples by using context clues.

Use this worksheet to teach your students to write compound sentences with the support of sentence frames as they differentiate between literal and nonliteral meanings of idioms. Don’t forget the context clues!

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 in the world? Your students will have a blast unpacking the meaning of common idioms and creating original art as they learn the difference between literal and figurative interpretations of sayings.

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

Use this resource with your students to practice using context clues to find the meaning of nonliteral language.

This worksheet is a beast! That's a metaphor, and your child will be writing his own metaphors in no time, then he can use them in a poem.

Silly sentences will have your students smiling! Use this resource with your students to practice writing silly sentences with alliteration.

Your mind will burst with knowledge after completing this hyperbole activity! Turn normal skills and traits into lager-than-life abilities using exaggeration.

Alliteration is a type of figurative language that is often used to engage a reader’s senses. Use this resource with your students to practice identifying examples of alliteration in context.

Children draw the literal meaning of a few idiomatic expressions as they consider their true social meaning.

This exercise will get your students inferring the meaning of unknown metaphors.