Module · Grades 6-8 · English Learners

Idioms and Everyday Expressions

Figurative and informal English.

Grade: Grades 6-8
Subject: English Learners
Course: English Language Development
Strand: Social and Instructional Language
Standards: WIDA.ELD-1
WIDA-ELD-2020

Tools

1 ready to use.

Idiom Island

Explore an island where every place is an English idiom. See what the words say, then what people really mean, hear it, read it in a sentence and earn a stamp.

English Learners Grades 6-8 Map

Word Wall

6 words in English and Spanish: idiom, piece of cake, under the weather, break the ice, slang, literal. Print them as wall cards, mini cards or a student glossary.

Print the words

Lesson plans

One class period each, built around a tool. Print them, change them, share them.

Idiom Island40 minutes · I can explain what an English idiom says word for word, what it really means, and use it in a sentence.