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Idioms Sentence Search
Similar to a wordsearch, pupils connect words using vertical and horizontal lines to create idiom sentences.
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Cross Out Paragraph Puzzle One: To Keep it Secret
Slightly confusing upon first glance, this lesson is actually a neat idea! Present your learners with a series of sentences (at the top of the page), and have them follow the directions to cross out adverbs, verbs in the past tense, etc....
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Photo Story Lesson Plan
After reading Loree Leedy's There's a Frog in My Throat: 440 Animal Sayings a Little Bird Told Me, kids create and illustrate their own poems that convey the meaning of an idiom. The poems are then transferred into Shutterfly's Photo...
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Shutterfly Photo Story Lesson Plan
A reading of Peggy Parish's Amelia Bedelia launches a study of idioms. Groups then select several idioms, write the meaning of the expressions, draw or select images, and use GIMP or Photoshop to create an idiom book.
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The World of Idioms (1)
In this idioms online activity, students use drop down menus add the correct word to 10 idioms. They submit their answers using the "Done" button.
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Ageless Idioms
Students translate and define idioms between English and Spanish. In this ageless idioms lesson, students discuss elements of expression and how a language's vernacular does not always make sense. Students illustrate a variety of...
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Railroad Idioms Art Lesson Plan
Sixth graders research railroad idioms. In this idiom lesson, 6th graders read through a glossary of different railroad idioms and their meanings. They illustrate a chosen idiom.
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Idioms
In this writing with idioms worksheet, students read 10 sentences and explain what the idiom (in bold) in each sentence means in their own words.
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Idioms
Students, who are not native English speakers, determine how idioms are used in speaking and writing. In this idiom lesson, students listen to tapes of non-native speakers, and work on vocabulary exercises aimed at increasing their use...
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Idioms
In this grammar worksheet, learners choose the appropriate idiom expression to fill in the blanks in twenty-four sentences. Students discuss each idiom.
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Idioms
In this idioms worksheet, students fill in missing words for 11 sentences. For example, "I finished the test very quickly, it was..."
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Prediction Idioms Exercise
In this grammar worksheet, students explore idiomatic expressions. Students determine meanings of idioms through four matching and eight multiple choice questions.
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Figurative Language Packet
A definitive resource for your figurative language unit includes several worksheets and activities to reinforce writing skills. It addresses poetic elements such as simile and metaphor, personification, hyperbole, and idioms, and...
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Idioms
Use this podcast instructional activity to familiarize scholars with the characteristics, history, and cultural implications of idioms. As part of the Walking Classroom curriculum, kids listen to a 12-minute podcast as they walk around...
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Context Clues and Idioms
Kids practice using five types of context clues (definition, synonym, antonym, example, and general) to decode idiomatic language.
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Theater: Create a Script
Figurative language is the focus in the book Teach Us, Amelia Bedelia. After reading Peggy Parish's book, class members dramatize idioms from the text, using dramatic strategies such as characterization, exaggeration, and improvisation....
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Cartoons for The Classroom: Lame Duck Congress
Clear up "lame duck" congressional confusion with this political cartoon analysis worksheet. Background information on the concept's history and current use is provided, and 2 cartoons give a past and present context. Three talking...
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The Outsiders
Tenth graders complete a variety of activities related to the first two chapters of the book The Outsiders. They define metaphor, simile, idiom, and hyperbole, and take a vocabulary pre-quiz. In small groups, they write a character...
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Animal Idioms
In this grammar worksheet, students read the 10 sentences with idioms and select the correct meaning of the idiom. This is an interactive, multiple choice worksheet.
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Idioms - G
In this recognizing idiom usage learning exercise, students read idioms with explanations of their meanings and then use them to give advice or answers as responses to the people's comments. Students write 7 answers.
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Idioms H
In this idioms usage worksheet, learners read idioms and their meanings, use them to write advice or answers to the people's exclamatory sentences, and fill in the blanks to complete sentences with correct idioms. Students write 6 answers.
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Idioms
In this recognizing idioms worksheet, students use idioms that begin with the letter J with their meanings, to write advice or answers in response to people's comments and fill in the blanks in a short passage. Students write 6 answers.
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Idioms Quiz
In this idioms worksheet, students complete the ten questions about idioms. This is an interactive, multiple choice worksheet.
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Idioms Quiz: Body 3
In this online/interactive recognizing idioms learning exercise, students read idioms about the body in isolation and in context to find their meanings. Students choose 10 multiple choice answers, click the "Answer" button and the "More...
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