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

Introduce your students to these common English idioms, used in the context of a sentence.

This worksheet gives students practice in locating idioms and determining the meanings.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Students can use this graphic organizer to help them infer the meanings of idioms they come across as they are reading.

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

Use this worksheet as an assessment that goes with the lesson plan Capturing the Clues, or as a stand-alone assessment of idiom meanings.

Test your knowledge of baseball lingo with this sports vocabulary matching worksheet!

Go on a camping adventure as you dive into this reading comprehension worksheet!