Idiom Reading Passages - Idioms Task Cards

Engage your students with figurative language with these idiom reading passages puzzle cards! Each idiom passage is written with context clues to help students determine what each idiom means.

Laminate and cut these puzzles into two pieces and have your students match the idioms with the short passage in a literacy center. You can even reduce the print size and have students glue these into their reading notebooks.

Colored and black and white versions are both included.

Idioms included are:

• Apple of my eye
• Butterflies in my stomach
• The cold shoulder
• Don't cry over spilled milk
• A fish out of water
• Frog in my throat
• Hold your horses
• I'm all ears
• Walking on eggshells
• When pigs fly
• A can of worms
• Head in the clouds
• In the same boat
• A piece of cake
• It's raining cats and dogs
• Sick as a dog
• Time flies
• Two heads are better than one
• Two peas in a pod
• Class clown
• Cold feet
• Costs an arm and a leg
• Couch potato
• At the end of the rope
• Attached at the hip
• Over the moon
• Zip your lips
• Break a leg
• A drop in the bucket
• Kill two birds with one stone
• Let the cat out of the bag
• A needle in the haystack
• Off the hook
• On cloud nine

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