2nd and 3rd Grade Idiom Worksheets

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

Use this worksheet to review figurative language! Students will write what they think each idiom on this worksheet means.

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

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

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

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!

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

Children will love coming up with creative drawings that depict common idioms literally in this engaging grammar worksheet.

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

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

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