Figurative Language Literal vs Non Literal Text

Looking for a fun and engaging way to teach your 3rd through 5th-grade students about similes and figurative language? Look no further than this exciting worksheet!

Featuring 10 multiple-choice questions that utilize similes and metaphors from the heartwarming story of Skip Learns a Lesson in Friendship; Literally. This worksheet is perfect for young readers who are just beginning to explore the wonderful world of figurative language.

Student will reinforce their knowledge of similies and metaphors.

3rd Grade Figurative Language Game.  Students will identify sentences and figurative language as using similes, metaphors, personification, and hyperbole by shooting a cat through burning hoops.

3rd Grade Figurative Language Game.  Students will identify personification, idioms, metaphors, similes, and alliteration while trying to dodge the Torpedo Tarpons and collect all the keys. 

In this activity students take simple sentences and use metaphors and similes to enhance their sentences, making them more interesting, entertaining, and more meaningful. Students will become more familiar with what a simile and a metaphor are.

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In this 3rd-grade worksheet, students will read a sentence and then decide whether it is talking about something literal or something nonliteral.  If it is nonliteral, students will then write what the interpretation of the figurative language should actually be; what the sentence actually means.

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