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📖 4th Grade · ELAL.4.5bUnit 5: Vocabulary & figurative language

Idioms, adages and proverbs

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🎯 Objective: Students recognize and explain common idioms and sayings.

Lesson outline

  1. Picture idioms.
  2. Match sayings to meanings.
  3. Discuss.
  4. Exit: explain one.

Lesson 2 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

L.4.5b

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 4 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Explain similes, metaphors, idioms, adages and proverbs
  • Use Greek and Latin affixes and roots

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Figurative language📚 All 4th Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Vocabulary & figurative language”

  1. Similes and metaphors
  2. Idioms, adages and proverbs
  3. Synonyms and antonyms
  4. Greek and Latin roots
  5. Context clues

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