3rd grade Figurative Language Printable Worksheets

Students will learn to identify and interpret similes, metaphors, and personification in writing.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Children practice identifying and interpreting one type of figurative language, similes, in nine sample sentences.

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.

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

Students will learn common animal sound words in different languages!

Children will love coming up with creative drawings that depict common idioms literally in this engaging grammar worksheet.

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