Get ready to "hit a homerun" with strategies and suggestions that will "knock your socks off" including how to introduce idioms and incorporate them into your language and writing instruction. The idioms and expressions are provided in context with stories and activities to teach usage and definitions and include hyperboles, metaphors, similes, and personification. Based on Dr. Timothy Rasinski's research, the idioms are grouped by themes for ease in teaching and learning. Includes a Teacher Resource CD. 96pp.

Introduce all students to common idioms and other expressions including hyperboles, metaphors, similes, and personification. The idioms and expressions are provided in context with stories and activities to teach usage and definitions.

Get ready to "hit a home run" with strategies and suggestions about how to introduce idioms and incorporate them into your language and writing instruction. They'll "knock your socks off"! Based on Dr. Timothy Rasinski's research, the idioms and expressions in this resource are taught in the context of stories and activities. They are also grouped by themes for ease in teaching and include: hyperboles, metaphors, similes, personification, proverbs, idiomatic vocabulary, and common sayings. Use these language arts activities to help all students in grades 4 through 6, including English language learners, develop a deeper understanding of the English language. This resource is correlated to state and national standards and supports college and career readiness.

Idioms are everywhere whether you break a leg, make a mountain out of a molehill, or let the cat out of the bag and they spice up English in the most delightful way. Mastery of idioms promotes fluency and lively, colorful self-expression. And now, with Exploring Idioms, you can use them to develop your students¿ critical-thinking skills, too. In Exploring Idioms, Valeri Helterbran provides opportunities for middle-grade students to actively work with and connect to 120 common American idioms, as well as more than 300 related idiomatic phrases students can investigate on their own. The critical-thinking activities in Exploring Idioms give you an easy and effective way to begin or end the day, to prepare students to respond to questions about idioms on state assessments, and to help ELL students master this difficult English-language concept while having fun at the same time. Have your students put on their thinking caps and explore the creative world of idioms.

Explains the meaning and origin of a selection of English language idioms, using each in a sentence.

Learn the language of Nebraska . . .and 49 other states With more entries than any other reference of its kind,McGraw-Hill’s Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs shows you how American English is spoken today. You will find commonly used phrasal verbs, idiomatic expressions, proverbial expressions, and clichés. The dictionary contains more than 24,000 entries, each defined and followed by one or two example sentences. It also includes a Phrase-Finder Index with more than 60,000 entries.

These word-study puzzles help students grasp common idioms, giving them more tools to tackle vocabulary challenges in grade-level texts.

Introduces and explains more than 100 expressions which mean something different than the separate words in the group. For example: raise the roof, hold your horses, and beat around the bush.

With a friend like Patrick, who needs enemies? Patrick is a showoff and a prankster, and Richard is his usual target. Resolved not to let Patrick get him in trouble, Richard is sucked in by The Mosquito, a way to eat red Jell-O through a straw, and of course trouble ensues. Complications arise when the new girl from France thinks the boys are seriously injured, and miscommunication is all too easy when idioms in English and in French are taken literally. The shifting alliances, interests, and concerns of second-graders are authentically and humorously depicted in this easy-to-read school story.