Daily Word Ladders: Idioms makes learning figurative language a piece of cake. This book includes 90 short word-study lessons called word ladders to help your students explore idiomatic expressions in a game-like manner. Although word ladders are playful in nature, they also integrate important language development with both receptive and expressive word study. The word ladders in our book integrate comprehension, vocabulary development, word solving, phonics, and spellingall key your students success in learning to read. Solving Word Ladders integrates key language learning strategies by requiring students to focus first on meaning by solving semantic clues. To move to the next step on the ladder, students must layer in a close examination of the sound-symbol relationship to determine how the sounds in the first word can change to make another. 192 pages. Grades: 4 and up.