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.

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.

This resource makes matching idioms as easy as pie! ​Students will pair idioms based on their identical meaning.

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

In this two-page worksheet, learners will use context clues to decipher the meaning of idioms used on literal and non-literal contexts.

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!

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

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

Kids complete sentences with idioms in this worksheet.

In this grammar worksheet, learners will enjoy writing what each idiom means figuratively, then drawing a picture to illustrate its meaning.

Challenge your students to use what they know about idioms to find the double meaning in these silly puns. They will ‘get a kick’ out of it!

Children will discover how figurative language can enliven writing in this fun cut-and-paste worksheet.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Idioms.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Idioms.

Introduce your students to visual puns with these fun images! Then, challenge them to come up with their own visual puns.

Children draw the literal meaning of a few idiomatic expressions as they consider their true social meaning.

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

Are you so hungry you could eat a horse? Your students will have fun identifying the examples of hyperbole and idioms in this worksheet.

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.

Many idioms are a dime a dozen. Give kids a chance to flex their figurative language skills and creativity by having them write and illustrate their very own idioms. Students will find that time really does fly when they're having fun!

Practicing with idioms is a piece of cake with the help of this worksheet!

Inspire a love for creative language in fourth- and fifth-grade students!

Use context clues to guess the meaning of idioms in this figurative language worksheet!