Idioms Posters, Worksheets, and Task Cards

Idioms are so fun to teach, but can be hard for kids to comprehend, especially for those literal learners! This resource provides multiple ways for students to experience and understand figurative language. It will help them distinguish between the literal and nonliteral meanings of idioms and explain what each idiom means.

WHAT YOU WILL GET:

Idioms Posters

Each poster (20 in all) includes an idiom, definition, and a literal illustration. They can be cut apart and used as a matching activity or left together as visual aids. These are especially helpful for your English language learners!

Idioms Task Cards

Students will read a sentence that contains an idiom and choose the correct meaning.

Includes

• 16 task cards
• recording sheet
• answer key

The task cards are provided in 2 sizes – quarter page for use by students and full page for display on your interactive whiteboard (great for whole group practice).

Idioms Reading Passage

This is a 2-page realistic fiction story that contains a variety of common idioms. Students read and look for idioms, using context to determine their meaning. This passage can be used for whole group instruction or with your guided reading groups.

Idioms Worksheets

Includes 5 worksheets that mostly focus on using context clues in the text to determine the meaning of idioms.

• What Does It Mean? – Students read sentences and write the meaning of the underlined idiom.
• Fill In the Idiom – Students read cloze sentences and use context clues to choose the idiom that best fills in the blank (2 worksheets)
• Idiom Match Up – Cut-and-paste worksheet, Students see literal illustrations of six different idioms and must match it to the correct meaning.
• Show What You Know – Six question worksheet that can be used as an assessment.

The idiom posters included in this resource are:

• once in a blue moon
• bend over backwards
• the apple of my eye
• back to square one
• an arm and a leg
• add fuel to the fire
• a piece of cake
• a dime a dozen
• cry over spilt milk
• go out on a limb
• hit the hay
• hit the nail on the head
• keep your chin up
• let sleeping dogs lie
• under the weather
• raining cats and dogs
• let the cat out of the bag
• barking up the wrong tree
• a drop in the bucket
• when pigs fly