Teenagers can be awfully cruel to one another, which is why I always keep a context clues worksheet on the verb ostracize handy. After all, even if a student is suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous friends, why squander a teachable moment?
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“Most people would die rather than think; in fact, they do so.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.
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Tagged cognition/learning/understanding, philosophy/religion
Here are two context clues worksheets on the verb descend and the noun descendant. As you will infer from the choice of the noun, these are the definitions of these words that relate to origins rather than moving in a downward direction. I like to use these early in the year in global studies classes.
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In my classroom, I rely almost exclusively on the Socratic method in my teaching for a variety of reasons, the most salient of them is simply that students who are talking in class–i.e. answering questions–are also thinking. As Daniel Willingham, the cognitive scientist at the University of Virginia (with whose work all teachers ought to familiarize themselves) succinctly puts it, “memory is the residue of thought.” If you want your students to retain what you teach them, ask questions that compel–or, one hopes, impel– them to think about the matter at hand in your classroom.
A couple of years ago I read Education for Judgement: The Art of Discussion Leadership by C. Roland Christenson, David A. Garvin, and Ann Sweet and published at the Harvard Business School Press. It’s one of the better books I’ve read for my own professional development, and I highly recommend it. To give you a sense of the riches this book contains for those interested in developing their skills in leading class discussion, I offer as this week’s Text this taxonomy of questions from its pages.
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Here is a context clues worksheet on the verb reverberate. It can be used both transitively and intransitively, but this worksheet uses it intransitively.
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If you teach any topic in social studies, you might find this context clues on the adjective populous useful.
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“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”
Abigail Adams (1744-1818)
Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.
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Tagged cognition/learning/understanding, united states history
By high school, students should understand the difference between poetry and prose. Here is a context clues on the noun prose that might guide your students toward understanding the distinction.
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Maybe you can use this context clue on the verb pursue which is used mostly transitively, but also has a relatively narrow intransitive use–i.e. “to go in pursuit.”
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“To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged philosophy/religion
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