Idioms Sorting Activity: Summer Barbecue Theme with Digital

Are you practicing idioms with your students? Keep them engaged with this barbecue-themed idiom sort!

Students will match 20 common idioms (on hotdogs and hamburgers) to their meanings (on picnic tables). Each idiom is written in the context of a summer-themed sentence.

There is a blank recording sheet, a recording sheet with the meanings already written in (students write the idioms that match each), and an answer key for easy checking.

Both color and black and white versions of the activity are included.

There is also a no-context idioms-only version where students will match idioms with their meanings without the idiom being included in a sentence. Use this as an additional activity or for an extra challenge.

Additionally, there are no-prep digital versions of both printable versions. The digital versions are ready to assign or use on your interactive whiteboard as a whole group activity. Have students take turns matching the correct food to the picnic table on the slide.

Ways to Use this Sort:

• An independent sorting activity
• A partner activity
• An ELA center
• A whole group digital activity

Full List of Idioms Included:

1. Break a leg!
2. Cat got your tongue?
3. cry over spilled milk
4. hit the nail on the head
5. easier said than done
6. raining cats and dogs
7. back to square one
8. let the cat out of the bag
9. butterflies in my stomach
10. The ball is in your court.
11. chewing the fat
12. put all of my eggs in one basket
13. clear as mud
14. a dime a dozen
15. a piece of cake
16. on the double
17. rain check
18. see eye to eye
19. pull out all of the stops
20. in the same boat

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