Category Archives: Worksheets

Classroom documents for student use. Most are structured and scaffolded, and most are pitched at a fundamental level in terms of the questions they ask and the work and understandings they require of students.

Nomad (n)

You might find useful this context clues worksheet on the noun nomad if you start your global studies curriculum with hunting-gathering societies.

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.

Rapport (adj)

Here is a context clues worksheet on the noun rapport which students really ought to know by their high school graduation.

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Kowtow (vi)

You may find this context clues worksheet on the intranstive verb kowtow useful. I have always heard this word as onomatopoeic; maybe your students would too.

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.

The Weekly Text, May 19, 2017: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on Cy Young

I meant to post this Intellectual Devotional reading on Cy Young and this reading comprehension worksheet to accompany it several weeks ago, closer to Major League Baseball’s Opening Day. Better late than never, I guess: here is this week’s Text on the legendary pitcher.

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Pithy (adj)

If you teach English, you might find this context clues worksheet on the adjective pithy helpful in assisting student in developing an understanding of why much of the best writing is concise (a synonym for pithy, and vice versa).

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.

Antecedent (n)

I just whipped up this context clues worksheet on the noun antecedent in an attempt to help students understand pronoun-antecedent agreement. It’s some distance from perfect, and I expect I’ll need to take another look at it down the road. If you can use it, it’s yours. If you modify it, I would be interested in hearing what you did with it.

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.

Ostracize (vt)

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?

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.

The Weekly Text, August 3, 2017: Two Context Clues Worksheets on the Verb Descend and the Noun Descendant

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.

If you find typos in these documents, 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.

Reverberate (vt/vi)

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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Populous (adj)

If you teach any topic in social studies, you might find this context clues on the adjective populous useful.

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.