Help with literal meaning I made up this game for my special ed students?

Question

SPED kids often have a hard time with non literal meaning. What do u think of this? Any Suggestions. Theyll match the saying w. the meaning.

Chill out - The way u are acting isnt okay, please calm yourself so u r behaving appropriately.

Shake a leg-u r taking a long time to do something. Please do it faster.

Give me a break-What u r saying or doing is silly & Im not happy. Please do it differently.

Don't let the cat out of the bag-You have a secret or surprise, please don’t tell.

Cat got your tongue-u don’t have anything 2 say. u r being very quiet.

Your goose is cooked-Whatever u've done, u've been found out & r now in trouble.

Throw in the towel-u r ready 2 stop doing what u r doing because its become 2 difficult. u want 2 give up.

Hit the hay-u r tired & ready 2 go 2 bed.

Hang in there - u r having lots of fun & it seems like u just started what u r doing but its almost time 2 stop

Don't let it rain on your your parade-Don’t let bad or hard things ruin ur fun

Answer 1

Depending on the level of function of the children, you maty need to make answers uch shorter; For instance, "shake leg"  maybe could be hurry up.

Answer 2

You are teaching them "idioms". That's great!!

You might start with telling them the meaning & having them as a group say the word.

Then, tell them the word & have them give a short (3-4 word) meaning.

You can play this like a Spelling Bee. If a student is "out", they just go to the back of the line on the other team, so no one ever sits down or stops playing!

Answer 3

Here are some great lesson ideas on figurative language

http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/le...

Here are some more sample idioms

Sample Idioms

    * hit the books

    * make a beeline

    * got a tiger by the tail

    * a frog in the throat

    * pie in the sky

    * bat in the belfry

    * blow his or her stack

    * hit the nail on the head

    * go fly a kite

    * have a green thumb

    * pull a leg

    * eager beaver

    * stick in the mud

    * have a ball

    * raining cats and dogs

    * make a mountain out of a molehill

    * have something up the sleeve

    * pull the wool over someone's eyes

    * walls have ears

    * lose one's marbles

Answer 4

I work with autistic children who are very literal. We have loads of books with these idioms and metaphors in. I do think if you are going to use these for autistic kids you will need to shorten the explanation down to just a couple of words, good luck with it.