Description
Figurative Language Activities and Task Cards BUNDLE:
This Figurative Language Activities and Task Cards BUNDLE is the perfect tool for 3rd-6th grade teachers to help students master eight figures of speech: hyperbole, similes and metaphors, idioms, proverbs and adages, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and puns. With over 340 pages of instructional materials, task cards, worksheets, and answer keys, this bundle offers a comprehensive, engaging way to teach figurative language in the classroom. Available as a PDF and Google Slides version, this bundle is perfect for whole-class instruction, small groups, or literacy centers.
These are the links to the individual products:
- FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE #1: HYPERBOLES
- FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE #2: SIMILES AND METAPHORS
- FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE #3: IDIOMS
- FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE #4: PROVERBS AND ADAGES
- FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE #5: PERSONIFICATION
- FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE #6: ALLITERATION
- FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE #7: ONOMATOPOEIA
- FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE #8: PUNS
Descriptions of each Figurative Language Activity are as follows:
HYPERBOLE ACTIVITIES:
This hyperbole activity for 3rd-6th grade is perfect for students learning figures of speech. You will find anchor charts with sample hyperboles, task cards, and worksheets.
This file includes the following:
- Four hyperbole instructional pages and examples
- 36 task cards (students identify the hyperbole on 12 cards, finish hyperbole sentences on 12 cards, and create 12 hyperboles from regular sentences)
- Three activity pages
- Answer sheets
- Answer keys where appropriate
SIMILES AND METAPHORS ACTIVITIES:
This simile and metaphor worksheet, task cards, and activity pack is for 3rd-6th grade. Use it for whole-class figurative language instruction, literacy stations or centers, or small-group work. These figurative language activities are fun and educational.
This file includes the following:
- Four instructional sheets
- 36 task cards with varying student requirements
- A task card answer sheet
- Task card answer key
- Three worksheets (answers on the worksheets will vary)
IDIOMS ACTIVITIES:
Everything you need to give students a fun opportunity to learn all about idioms.
These idiom worksheets, task cards, and activities product were created for 3rd-6th grade and include the following:
- Two instructional pages
- Five full pages of common idioms and their meanings (67 idioms included)
- 36 task cards with three different question types
- One answer sheet
- One task card answer key
- Two printable activity pages
- One page for a whole-class idioms game
PROVERBS AND ADAGES ACTIVITIES:
This proverbs and adages figurative language activity for 3rd-6th grade is perfect for teachers who need task cards, sample proverbs, their meanings, and worksheets!
This file includes the following:
- Two instructional pages
- Seven pages of common proverbs and adages
- 24 task cards
- An answer sheet
- An answer key
- Three activity sheets
Per standards, this packet does NOT focus on the difference between proverbs and adages, but instead on their contextual meaning.
PERSONIFICATION ACTIVITIES:
These personification activities are perfect for teachers who want 3rd-6th graders to better understand how personification enhances written and spoken language.
This product includes the following:
- Three instructional pages
- A personification word list (2 pages with over 150 words) for common human traits and actions that can be used to personify writing
- 36 personification task cards with a variety of questions
- A task card answer sheet (2 pages)
- A task card answer key (2 pages)
- Four pages of activities.
ALLITERATION ACTIVITIES:
Alliteration is always amazing! This figurative language alliteration activity is designed for 3rd-6th grade and includes everything you need to engage students in fun, meaningful alliteration poems, activities, and worksheets.
This file includes the following:
- Two alliteration instructional sheets
- 20 task cards with varying student requirements
- A task card answer sheet
- An acrostic poetry exercise
- A tongue twister partner activity
- A class book template for an alliteration picture book
- Number poetry
- Alliteration in common phrases
ONOMATOPOEIA ACTIVITIES:
These onomatopoeia worksheets, task cards, and anchor charts are perfect for students learning about figures of speech. You will find reference pages with common onomatopoeia words and the corresponding things or animals they come from. This file is perfect for 3rd-6th grade.
This onomatopoeia file includes the following:
- An instructional poster
- A list of 90 common onomatopoeia words
- 24 task cards with three distinct question types
- An answer sheet
- A task card answer key
- Five onomatopoeia worksheets
PUNS ACTIVITIES:
This puns task card product is an engaging figurative-language word-play activity for 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade.
This puns wordplay product includes:
- Two instructional pages
- 30 task cards (two per page)
- Task card answer sheets
- Task card answer keys
- Four puns no-prep printable activity sheets
THESE PDF FILES INCLUDE OVER 340 PDF PAGES + Digital Option in GOOGLE








All That Glitters in Grade 4 –
Can’t wait to use this with my 4th graders soon! Thank you so much! 🙂
Dorothea B –
This will help my struggling readers/English learners in SO many ways this year. Thank you for a great product!
Birt’s Busy Bees –
Worth the cost to “oomph” up my figurative language center.
Jennifer Wilson –
What a time saver to have all these sentences and examples ready to go. Thank you!
Jan R –
Perfect, thank you.
Deloris M –
Wonderful!!!
Megan W –
These are great! Thank you!
Megan W –
These are great! Thank you!
Kandi B –
Good coverage of figurative language concepts
Kathleen C –
Great posters and task cards. Beautiful!
Heather D –
Perfect! Very handy and I love the Posters and task cards.
Michelle J –
Just what I needed thank you!
Shelley J. –
Great product!
Corinna W –
Looks good though I haven’t used it yet.
Toni B. –
Thank you!
Morgan L –
Great aid
Jaclyn K –
Love it.
Shari Head –
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linda K –
Love the resource.
Jennifer D. –
Great product!