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Reading the Play
Do figures of speech enhance a play or story? In small groups, learners locate and describe figures of speech they find while reading a reader's theater play. After making predictions, they describe how the figures of speech make the...
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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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Eating Up Idioms
Ah, food idioms! Now that sounds tasty. Class members read and discuss various food-related idioms, create an illustration of a food-related idiom, and develop a class book or bulletin board to celebrate figurative language and National...
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Advice Idioms Exercise
In this grammar worksheet, 5th graders explore idiomatic expressions and their meanings. Students complete twelve questions where they determine the meanings of an expression.
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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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Conventions: Hyperbole
Fifth graders discuss hyperbole. For this language arts lesson, 5th graders understand that hyperbole enables writers to make a point by describing something in an overly dramatic way. Students create a list of objects that can be used...
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Mammal Idioms Exercise
In this grammar and biology worksheet, students explore mammals using idiomatic expressions. Students match five expressions to their correct meaning and then complete eight multiple choice questions using the idiomatic expressions.
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ESL Complete the Sentence- Idiom Worksheet
In this ESL complete the idiom worksheet, students fill in the endings to common idioms. They see a small, colorful clip art picture that shows the meaning of the idiom before they complete the sentence.
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Verb Phrases
This worksheet tackles the topic of verb phrases by providing an explanation of a verb phrase followed by several examples of verb phrases and their meanings. Students complete fill in the blank sentences with the correct verb phrase.
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ESL Use of Idioms Multiple Choice Worksheet
In this ESL understanding idioms worksheet, students examine 6 small clip art illustrations of idioms before choosing the idiom that best matches the phrase that explains its meaning.
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Idioms Beginning with "R"
In this idioms worksheet, learners use context clues to choose the idiom that most closely matches the meaning of the given expression.
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The World of Idioms (1)
In this idioms online worksheet, students use drop down menus add the correct word to 10 idioms. They submit their answers using the "Done" button.
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Idioms
In this idioms online interactive worksheet, learners practice choosing the multiple choice phrase that is similar to 5 specific idioms. Students choose their answers online and get immediate feedback of whether they are correct or not.
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Strange Expressions
For this online interactive idioms worksheet, students determine which multiple choice answer best answers each of the 10 questions dealing with strange expressions.
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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 Beginning With D
For this Idioms interactive worksheet, students recognize idioms beginning with d. Students complete ten sentences by choosing the correct meaning of the idiom.
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Revisiting Big Metaphors and Themes: Revising and Beginning to Perform Two-Voice Poems
Now that your class has read all of Esperanza Rising, take the time to tackle big metaphors and themes. Pupils will participate in an activity called Chalk Talk, in which they circulate around the room in small groups and add comments to...
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Thanks Be To You
Students research U.S. history by completing a worksheet activity in class. In this historical figure lesson, students identify the contributions and risks taken by the former African-American leader Martin Luther King Jr. Students read...
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Yikes! An Interjection!
In this grammar instructional activity, students learn about using interjections in sentence writing. They then use what they learned to answer 9 questions. The answers are on the last page.