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!

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

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

Use this resource with your students to practice using context clues to determine the meaning of idioms.

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!

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