Super Teacher Worksheets
Idioms
If figurative language makes your kids feel blue or under the weather, use an activity focused on idioms to help them feel on top of the world. Kids complete a chart with seven idiomatic phrases, adding the meaning of each along with an...
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Idiom Dictionary
Examining idioms is a peace of cake when using this graphic organizer! Here, grammarians identify an idiom and use it in a sentence. Then they investigate its literal meaning versus its figurative meaning, and accompany each one with a...
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Idiom Workout
Teach your students that identifying a phrase as an idiom isn't an insult! Providing an ample definition of the term "idiom," as well as three categories of popular idioms ("get the..." "in a..." and "on the..."), the activity prompts...
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ESL Picture/Idiom Matching Worksheet
In this ESL picture to idiom matching worksheet, students examine 7 small clip art images before matching them to the idioms they best represent. They work with idioms such as "blood is thicker than water," and "as you make your bed, so...
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Idioms Quiz: Mixed 7
In this online/interactive idiom usage worksheet, students read idiom phrases and sentences using them and then choose the phrases that best explain the idioms. Students choose 10 multiple choice answers and click the "Click for answer"...
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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 writing with idioms instructional activity, students read 10 sentences and explain what the idiom (in bold) in each sentence means in their own words.
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Idioms Quiz: Body 4
In this online/interactive recognizing idioms worksheet, students read idioms in isolation and phrases and choose the best explanations of them. Students choose 10 multiple choice answers and click on the buttons "Click for answer" and...
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Idiom Conversations
In this idioms worksheet, students choose the answer that is closest in meaning according to the preceding conversation. All of the sentences include different idioms and slang.
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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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ESL Use of Idioms Multiple Choice Worksheet
In this ESL understanding idioms learning exercise, 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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Animal Idioms
In this ESL animal idioms worksheet, students read 12 idioms that contain an animal name. Students draw a line to the meaning that will match each idiom its definition.
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Country Sayings Exercise
In this idioms worksheet, students read 12 country expressions or colloquial expressions and then match each with its correct meaning, Students then write down 3 colloquial expressions or idioms from their language and record the meanings.
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Idioms with Body Parts
For this idiom worksheet, students match bolded idioms in sentences with their meaning. Students may click an "answer" button for immediate feedback, worksheet is labeled ESL but is not exclusive.
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Just One Is Right! (Common Idioms)
In this idioms worksheet, students examine 7 pictures and read the first half of sentences about them. students read the 4 choices of common idioms and select the one that best completes the sentence. Example: Before exams students (burn...
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ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.4
The fourth standard for reading literature in the Common Core calls for young readers to be able to determine the figurative and connotative meanings of words and phrases. Use this resource, a continuation of a series of Common Core...
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Match, Match Up
In this ESL expressions and idioms worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that illustrate common idioms. Students match these to the idioms they depict.
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Complete the Expression
In this ESL idioms worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures and read the first few words of common expressions or idioms. Students complete each expression by writing it on the line.
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Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse Activities
In this book activities worksheet, students read a paragraph about the book Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse, use sentence starters, write a song, use idioms, complete a spelling game, and complete a writing pattern. Students complete 5...
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Evaluating Text: Helen Keller's "My Life"
Readers are asked to evaluate Helen Keller's claim, and the evidence she uses to support her argument, that it is more difficult for hearing impaired children to learn to talk with others.
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ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.10
How do you assess what your pupils have learned over the course of the year? Find out how competent they are at reading and analyzing age-level literature with the ideas presented here. Included in this resource are two suggested...
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Prepositions
Elementary schoolers view and study ten pictures of the location of a ball adjacent to a box. They decide where the ball is and match it to its appropriate preposition on the right. A good language arts lesson!
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Joan of Arc
Here is an online quiz, complete with answer links. High schoolers respond to nine short answer questions about Joan of Arc, her battles, and even the voices in her head. The best part, they can check their own answers.
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ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.5
"Timid, scared, terrified." High school scholars examine words, their denotations and connotations, in a series of exercises that use lines from Shakespeare to explore figurative language and word relationships. Participants then...