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Grade 5 Reading Worksheet - Building Confidence
What does the bold idiom mean? Circle the answer.
Idioms and figurative language require students to move beyond the literal words and infer the intended meaning from context asks fifth graders to read closely, connect ideas across sentences, and choose evidence rather than a familiar-sounding answer. Students may picture the literal phrase and miss how the sentence uses it to describe a feeling, strategy, or result. This worksheet uses compact passages and source pairs so students must return to the words on the page before answering.
Students interpret idioms, use context clues, distinguish literal and figurative meanings, and explain why a writer chose a figurative phrase. Support versions use more direct wording. Standard and challenge versions add closer choices, longer evidence, or a second source to compare. Ask your child to point to the line, feature, or reason that proves the answer. If a choice sounds reasonable but cannot be proved from the text, it is not the best reading answer.
Common Core standard: L.5.5.A
"Break the ice" means to make an uncomfortable moment more relaxed, not to crack a real sheet of ice.
Choosing the literal meaning of an idiom even when the context points elsewhere.
Read the sentence around the phrase and ask what the phrase means in that situation.
Choosing the literal meaning of an idiom even when the context points elsewhere.
Read the sentence around the phrase and ask what the phrase means in that situation.
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