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3rd and 4th Grade Idiom Educational Resources

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

Figurative Language: 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.

Idioms: A Figure of Speech

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

Idioms: Tell Us What You Think!

Introduce students to the world of idioms with this exercise that shares some of the most common expressions in the English language.


Idioms 1

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

Idioms: Picture This!

In this two-page worksheet, learners will use context clues to decipher the meaning of idioms used on literal and non-literal contexts.

Idioms: Explaining Literal and Nonliteral Language

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

Mixed-Up Idioms

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

Idioms in Context

Words are the wondrous building blocks in language. This unit increases students’ word knowledge by introducing more challenging vocabulary and exploring how words are related. Learners will also discover some of the ways words are constructed using derivational root words, prefixes, suffixes, and compound words. Students will get to explore and create fun literary devices such as similes, idioms and metaphors.

Word Meaning 2

The reading and writing practice in this workbook will get kids thinking about all the different parts that go into a good story, like vocabulary, structure and sequencing.

Reading Skills: Sentences to Stories

In this mid-year assessment, students will apply their language arts knowledge to a broad set of problems.

Mixed Review Language Arts Assessment

Squeeze in some extra practice in word analysis, spelling, and punctuation with these engaging grammar worksheets.

Vocabulary Boosters

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!

Literal and Nonliteral Language

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

What Is an Idiom?

Kids practice using idioms in this figurative language worksheet.

Identify the Idiom

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

Show Your Idioms

Are you so hungry you could eat a horse? Your students will have fun identifying the examples of  hyperbole and idioms in this worksheet.

Expressions Explained

Put all your Easter eggs in this worksheet! Help your students use the context of a sentence to discover the meaning of these Easter idioms.

Easy Easter Idioms

Kids complete sentences with idioms in this worksheet.

Making Sense of Idioms

Refresh your third grader's understanding of idioms with this hands-on art activity that encourages him to manipulate clay to represent his favorite idiom.

Make Clay Idioms a "Piece of Cake"!

Strengthen your students' understanding of figurative language by helping them interpret visual puns! Students will use a webpage to help them understand puns in their future reading and writing endeavors.

Pun Visuals

Your little poets will love how their creative writing abilities will grow with this lesson about similes and metaphors. Students engage in fun activities to learn about similes and metaphors and write comparisons as directed.

Similes and Metaphors: Comparisons Done Right

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