Search Printable 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying metaphors as they color in the logs that contain them.

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

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.

Students will learn common animal sound words in different languages!

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.

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

In this grammar worksheet, learners will enjoy writing what each idiom means figuratively, then drawing a picture to illustrate its 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 draw the literal meaning of a few idiomatic expressions as they consider their true social meaning.