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As students begin to read more sophisticated texts, understanding how authors use figurative language becomes critical. In this unit, students will revisit some of the figurative language they learned in fourth grade and also study some new ones too, including onomatopoeia, hyperbole, puns and oxymorons. Analyzing how figurative language is used in texts will help readers apply what they have learned.

Figurative Language

Descriptive language and metaphoric phrases take the spotlight in this workbook. Kids use new vocabulary and common phrases to tackle writing skills.

This literary lesson has students delving into Emily Dickinson's "The Moon was but a Chin of Gold" to find different types of figurative language. Writers will love sharpening reading comprehension skills with this poetry analysis activity.

Poetry: Figurative Language

Explore figurative language and common expressions in this fifth-grade reading and writing game!

Dino Photoshoot: Figurative Language in Sentences

Support discussions about main ideas and summarization with these helpful language frames. This worksheet will help your students organize their thoughts and information from a nonfiction paragraph or text.

Language Frames: Nonfiction Summary

This language arts review provides a quick way to assess your students’ knowledge of parts of speech and other skills.

Language Arts Review Part 1

Get to know figurative language like the back of your hand with this fifth-grade learning game!

Dino Bones: Using Figurative Language in Sentences

Use this creative grammar worksheet to give your child practice making sense of text message language and translating it into formal writing.

Making Sense of Text Message Language

Ideal for fourth and fifth graders, this worksheet includes figurative language examples and definitions on the first page, and a second full page of questions and tasks that can be used to check for understanding.

Fall Figurative Language Task Cards

Do you want your students to have confident, informative discussions? Build student discourse and writing confidence with these comparison sentence frames! Students will use sentence and paragraph frames to practice comparing two nouns of their choice.

Language Frames: Compare & Contrast

Children work with two forms of figurative language in this grammar worksheet.

Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #1

Learners discover the magic of figurative language in this reading and writing exercise.

Review: Metaphors and Similes

Mixed Practice: Similes and Metaphors #2

Children use their knowledge of figurative language to complete the idioms in this fun fishing game!

Dino Fishing: Complete the Idiom

Bolster your child's grasp of language and vocabulary with this diving game featuring analogies.

Treasure Diving: Analogies

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

Examples of Hyperbole! Part 2

Learners gain familiarity with common expressions in this fun game all about figurative language!

Dino Bones: Understanding Idioms

Explore figurative language in context with this personification worksheet designed for fifth through eigth graders!&nbsp;

Personification in Context

Examples of Hyperbole! Part 1

Learners build language and vocabulary skills while identifying synonyms in this fun matching activity!

Match the Synonyms: Level 3

In this worksheet, students will read Carl Sandburg's poem "Fog," then analyze the poem for figurative language.

Metaphors in Poetry

Help students decode tricky language in the Declaration of Independence with an integrated vocabulary and history lesson. After reviewing vocabulary as a class, students will rewrite the Declaration of Independence in kid-friendly language.

Vocabulary in the Declaration of Independence

Learners will practice identifying and decoding figurative language as they read and decipher five practice sentences.

Play on Words

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

Idioms: Tell Us What You Think!

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.

Assonance and Consonance

Time to saddle up some adjectives! Descriptive language adds interest to writing. Your little cowpoke can practice adding adjectives to a paragraph.

Adding Adjectives

This poem offers a fun, memorable example for students as they learn to interpret figurative language in works of poetry and literature.

Hyperbole in Poetry

Give your students practice with an important fifth grade language arts skill: Combining words to form contractions and hyphenated compound words.

Pairing Up Words

Practice using onomatopoeia like hiss, squeak, and boom in this fun language puzzle!

Onomatopoeia Crossword Puzzle #3

Print out this sheet to help your child understand the difference between further and farther, two of the trickiest words in the English language!

Further vs Farther

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