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3rd - 5th Grade Common Core Figurative Language Worksheets : Page 4

It&#39;s time to let loose and get silly with this fun figurative language exercise! This worksheet will let your students stretch their creativity as they practice using homonyms to write their own puns.

Create a Pun 2

Students will look at hilarious puns and how they use homonyms and homophones.

Let's Have Pun!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Making Sense of Metaphors.

Glossary: Making Sense of Metaphors

Students will get to play with words as they explore a variety of oxymorons in this seriously fun worksheet! As kids explain the meaning of these contradictory terms, they’ll learn how figurative language can add humor and intrigue to their writing!

Seriously Fun Oxymorons!

With this worksheet, your fifth graders will add feeling to their writing by using hyperbole. Hyperbole is an extreme exaggeration that adds emphasis and humor for extra effect. Once they complete this worksheet, they will be masters of hyperbole.

Write Your Own Hyperboles #2

Put all your Easter eggs in this worksheet! Help your students use the context of a sentence to discover the meaning of these Easter idioms.

Easy Easter Idioms

Take things to the extreme with this hyperbole practice sheet! Learn to use exaggeration to make your writing more descriptive.

What is Hyperbole?

Use this worksheet to help students practice understanding homophonic puns.

Homophonic Puns

In this engaging worksheet, learners will practice identifying, working with, and writing hyperboles.

Fun With Hyperboles

Students will be rolling with laughter as they read and write their own puns!

Let's Have Even More Pun!

Give your students exposure to funny puns related to animals!

Animal Puns

As your students read these silly limericks, they’ll identify examples of hyperbole.

Wacky Limericks

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

Making Sense of Figurative Language 3

Engage your students with eggciting wordplay and food puns!

Fun with Food Puns #2

Give your students a case of the giggles with twelve funny pun cards that use similar sounding words and phrases to create double meaning.

Punny Jokes

What do you call a pig that does karate? A pork chop! This figurative language worksheet gives your students a chance to create art to represent puns. Kids will have fun reading the puns and making their own illustrations to accompany them!

Pun Art #1

If your students need more practice with onomatopoeia, this worksheet will provide them with examples of common animal sounds and related contexts.

Sounds Like an Animal!

With this worksheet, your students practice and identifying and writing hyperboles.

Hard-Working Hyperbole

Help your students practice using two antonyms to create an oxymoron.

Oxymoron Creations

Students will use their imaginations to write sentences using alliteration.

Creative Alliteration

Help students understand homographic puns and how to use them.

Homographic Puns

Teach your students about hyperbole using music! First, let them practice interpreting hyperboles. Then, play a song (or provide lyrics) and invite them to listen for an example of hyperbole.

Hip-Hop Hyperboles

Use this awfully good worksheet about using an oxymoron to inspire creative writing.

Obvious Oxymoron

This Easter worksheet will help students practice understanding the meaning of puns.

Bad Hare Day Easter Puns

Puns offer kids the chance to have fun with figurative language! Your students will giggle as they find homophones in each of these silly puns.

Puns with Homophones #2

Use these wacky sentences to help your students recognize alliteration as they read.

Wild and Wonderful Alliteration

Let’s exaggerate! Hyperboles are a fun way for students to spice up their writing.

Humongous Hyperboles

This graphic organizer helps your students examine descriptive adjectives and nouns.

T-Chart: Descriptive Adjectives and Nouns

Get plenty of practice with alliteration by identifying and creating alliterative sentences.

Identifying Alliteration, Descriptive Adjectives, and Nouns

Help your students use homonyms to write their own puns as they practice using figurative language with this fun activity!

Create a Pun

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