Idioms Anchor Chart

- Year levels
- Years 3–4
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Vocabulary, Language Development, English
- Topic
- Idioms, Vocabulary
- Resource types
- Anchor Charts
- Preparation
- Print ready
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About this resource
This resource is a set of 4 anchor charts for teaching idioms. The first chart is complete. The following 3 charts are fill in the blank. These charts work great for a bulletin board display or inserted into students' interactive reading notebooks.
In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Students learn that an idiom is a word or phrase whose figurative meaning differs from its literal wording.
Teaching tips
Fill in the two blank idiom-example templates with idioms relevant to your class before displaying the chart, since no specific idioms are pre-printed in the file.
Skills covered
Idiom definition recall — students learn that an idiom carries a figurative meaning different from its literal wording.
Anchor chart customisation — a teacher fills in the blank idiom-example templates with chosen idioms and their figurative/literal meanings for classroom display.
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Concepts & topics
Core concepts
Idioms
Figurative vs. literal language
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