L.3.5 Common Core Activity
This L.3.5 common core activity gives 3rd to 5th grade students idiom task cards, a tips chart, and a practice page. An answer key is included for quick checking.
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Description
This L.3.5 common core activity helps students understand idioms, phrases whose real meaning is different from what the words say. Standard L.3.5 asks students to tell literal and nonliteral meanings apart in context. When children can figure out an idiom, they understand stories, conversations, and jokes much better, and they become more confident readers and writers.
Students start with an Idiom Tips chart that shows four smart ways to figure out an idiom. Then they work through 12 task cards. Each card shows an idiom inside a real sentence with three possible meanings. Students use the clues in the sentence, choose A, B or C, and write the letter and the meaning in their own words on the Recording Sheet. A 3rd grade practice page with five new idioms gives one more round of practice, and an answer key is included.
What’s Included
- A colorful cover and a How to Use page with prep tips and game steps
- An Idiom Tips chart with four strategies and examples
- 12 idiom task cards with three answer choices each
- A Recording Sheet for answers and meanings
- A 3rd grade practice worksheet with five idioms in sentences
- A task card answer key and a practice answer key
Why It Helps Kids Learn
- Reading each idiom in a sentence teaches students to use context clues.
- Comparing a silly literal meaning with the real meaning builds strong word sense.
- Task cards make practice active, quick, and fun for small groups or centers.
Ideas for Teachers and Parents
Use the task cards for a game of Scoot, a literacy center, or partner practice. Ask students to draw a funny picture of what an idiom says, then write what it really means. Keep a class idiom wall and add new ones from read-alouds. This l.3.5 common core activity works well as a 3rd grade idioms activity, and it is a great review for 4th and 5th grade too.
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