Category Archives: English Language Arts

Here, on a busy, wet Monday morning, is a context clues worksheet the word rote, which is used both as a noun and an adjective. This is a word I teach students so that on those rare occasions when I need them to learn by rote, they understand what I’m talking about.

If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

OK, here’s one more post on a grey and quiet Saturday morning in Springfield, Massachusetts, to wit a context clues worksheet on the noun rogue. Does anyone use this word anymore?

If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

Because it was Merriam-Webster’s word of the day yesterday, here is a context clues worksheet on the adjective ritzy today. While this is adjective is arguably vernacular, it is part of the grain of American English vernacular; ergo, I suppose, there is an argument to be made for teaching it as such, particularly to English Language Learners, for whom a teacher might want to make the connection to the Ritz Hotels.

If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.