Idioms: Explaining Literal and Nonliteral Language

How can you tell literal language from non-literal language? Context clues! In this worksheet, learners will review idioms used side-by-side in two sets of dialogue. They will then write the literal and non-literal meanings based on clues from the texts. Designed for third graders, this grammar worksheet supports learners as they learn to identify and use figurative language based on context clues.