3rd grade Figurative Language Printable Worksheets

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

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

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 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!

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.

In this grammar worksheet, learners will enjoy writing what each idiom means figuratively, then drawing a picture to illustrate its meaning.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Students will learn common animal sound words in different languages!