Tag Archives: building vocabulary/conceptual knowledge

Deduce (vt)

Alright, here is a context clues worksheet on the verb deduce, which is only used transitively. Without getting into a major discussion on the validity of deduction as a means of analysis and cognition, I will say that I consider it inarguable that high school students should know this word and the concept it represents–i.e. a mode of thinking and analysis.

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Samuel Adams

Lest students think he is only a brand of beer and not a the proper name of a hotheaded patriot from Boston in the cause of the American Revolution as well as a founding father of the United States, here is a reading on Samuel Adams and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet.

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A Lesson Plan on the Latin Word Root Circum-

Alright, moving right along, here is a lesson plan on the Latin word root circum; it means around. It is, as this worksheet that is the mainstay of the lesson fairly quickly exposes, a very productive root in English. Moreover, these are words that are in very heavy use in educated discourse in this country, which is why your student or child should know them as well as the root at the base of them.

I open this lesson with the context clues on the adverb and adjective abroad. It is a conceptual antonym to words formed from circum-, and to the extent possible, the worksheet itself aims to hint at these words and their meanings–as well as the idea of an antonym.

That’s it for today. I hope you are at home and safe, and all young minds are engaged, wherever you are.

Godspeed.

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Credit (n), Credit (v)

Here is a pair of context clues worksheets on credit as a noun and a verb. As a verb, it is transitive only. 

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Grizzly (adj), Grisly (adj)

These five worksheets on the homophones grizzly and grisly–they’re both adjectives–are the last set of homophone worksheets in my data warehouse. In all, I wrote 72 sets of five worksheets for a variety of these kinds of words; that means there are 360 of these worksheets on Mark’s Text Terminal. To find them, simply look at the word cloud, click on “homophones” and every post containing these documents should appear.

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Bulimia

Health teachers, if you can use them, here is a short reading on bulimia and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. I hope you can use it. This has tended to be high-interest material in my classrooms, so I have tagged it as such.

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The Weekly Text, March 27, 2020, Women’s History Week Week IV: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on Victoria Woodhull

Here’s the last post of the day and for the final Friday of Women’s History Month 2020, a short reading on the fascinating Victoria Woodhull and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet.

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Cultural Literacy: Hunting and Gathering Societies

OK. Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on hunting and gathering societies. I’m hard pressed to imagine that this doesn’t belong as a foundation stone in any social studies curriculum.

Hell, it may even arouse interest in building a cooperative society. Remember cooperation? I liked it.

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Dawn (vi)

Here is a context clues worksheet on the verb dawn. It’s only used intransitively. The context clues I use call upon students to infer that two meanings of this word, to wit. “to begin to grow light as the sun rises” and “to begin to be perceived or understood.”

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A Lesson Plan on the Crime and Puzzlement Case “Buck Shot”

As I’ve previously mentioned, the Crime and Puzzlement material I post on this site quickly became, and remains, among the most popular and therefore heavily downloaded items here. So, here is a lesson plan on the Crime and Puzzlement case “Buck Shot.”

This Cultural Literacy worksheet on the idiom “Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining” opens the lesson as a do-now exercise to get students settled, engaged, and thinking after a class change. You’ll need the PDF of the illustration and questions in order to conduct the investigation; to solve it, here is the typescript of the answer key.

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