TEKS ELA Standard: 2.3.D

Idioms About Numbers 2

Five idioms related to numbers.

Idioms About Numbers 1

Five idioms related to numbers.

Idioms About Salt

Five idioms related to salt.

Idioms About Eggs

Five idioms related to eggs.

Idioms About Dessert

Five idioms related to dessert.

Idioms About Food 2

Five idioms related to food.

Idioms About Food 1

Five idioms related to food.

Idioms About Feet

Five idioms related to feet.

Idioms About Noses

Five idioms related to noses.

Idioms About Hands and Fingers

Five idioms related to hands and fingers.

Idioms About Hands

Five idioms related to hands.

Idioms About Body Parts

Five idioms related to body parts.

Idioms About Bugs

Five idioms related to bugs.

Idioms About Birds 2

Five idioms related to birds.

Idioms About Birds 1

Five idioms related to birds.

Idioms About Ducks

Five idioms related to ducks.

Idioms About Geese

Five idioms related to geese.

Idioms About Names

Five idioms related to names.

Idioms About Bites

Five idioms related to bites.

Idioms About the Greeks and Romans

Five idioms related to the Greeks and Romans.

Idioms About Mouths

Five idioms related to mouths.

Idioms About Water

Five idioms related to water.

Rebus Puzzles

Multiple Meaning Matcher – Theta

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?

Multiple Meaning Matcher – Eta

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?

Multiple Meaning Matcher – Zeta

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?

Multiple Meaning Matcher – Epsilon

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?

Multiple Meaning Matcher – Delta

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?

Multiple Meaning Matcher – Gamma

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?

Multiple Meaning Matcher – Beta

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?

Multiple Meaning Matcher – Alpha

Can your students match multiple meanings of the same five words?

Idioms About Money

Five sets of idioms related to money.

Idioms About Fire

Five sets of idioms related to fire!

Idiom Tasks

Four fantastically terrific tasks for a weekly idiom study.

Prefixes and Suffixes in Other Languages

Let’s go beyond merely memorizing word parts and instead analyze across languages. How do other languages make a word the opposite?

Idioms about Weather

Five sets of idioms related to the weather.

Idioms About Red

Five sets of idioms related to the color red.

Antonym Paths

Does the antonym of an antonym bring us back to the same meaning?

Fancier Figurative Language: Use the Opposite

Let’s start with “As cold as fire.”

Writing Technique: Contrast With Synonyms

A specific technique to help students add some spice to their writing. We’ll be contrasting two ideas using synonyms.

Writing Technique: Opposite Adjectives

A specific technique to help students add some spice to their writing. We’ll be using antonyms to describe the same topic!

Ambiguous Sentences

Rather than just demand that students “write clearly,” we’ll explore the hazards of poorly written sentences… and maybe create one of our own!

Synonym Graphs

So, which is happiest: happy, joyful, or ecstatic? Which is most temporary?

Multiple Meaning Matcher – Introduction

Your students will try to match up definitions that belong to the same homophone in this brain-boggling vocab puzzle.

Content Imperatives: Paradox

How can one idea pull in opposite directions, being both true and false or right and wrong at the same time? It’s time to explore Paradoxes!