3rd Grade Figurative Language 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 determine the meaning of idioms.

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

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

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 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.

Students will learn common animal sound words in different languages!

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!

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

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.

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

Hot potato! Here's a fun worksheet that is sure to elicit some giggles. Students will sketch the literal meaning of three idioms.

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 how to explain the meaning of literal and nonliteral language. Don’t forget the context clues!