Tag Archives: building vocabulary/conceptual knowledge

Derogatory (adj)

Here’s a context clues worksheet on the adjective derogatory. The verb, incidentally, is derogate and is used both intransitively and transitively. In any case, the adjective is relatively commonly used.

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Cultural Literacy: Stereotype

OK, another day arrives. Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept of stereotype and stereotyping, which seems timely to me.

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Word Root Exercise: Zo, Zoo

Here is a worksheet on the Greek word roots zo and zoo, which mean animal and life–as in zoology.

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German Measles

Here is a short reading on the German measles, also known as rubella, along with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. In some respects, this is a short reading on epidemiology as well, which, of course, makes it timely.

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A Lesson Plan on the Timelines of World History

I was all but certain that I had previously posted this lesson plan on the timeline of global history, but I can’t find it anywhere on Mark’s Text Terminal. So, here is a context clues worksheet on the noun chronology with which I open this lesson. Here is the reading, which is really a list of significant dates in world history; here also are the questions to answer in worksheet form. Finally, here are is the teacher’s copy of the worksheet, i.e. the answers.

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Symbol (n) and Cymbal (n)

Here are five homophone worksheets on the nouns symbol and cymbal.

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A Lesson Plan on the Crime and Puzzlement Case “Casey at the Plate”

Here is a lesson plan on the Crime and Puzzlement case “Casey at the Plate.”

I open this investigation with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept of a “significant other” as a do-now exercise. Here is a scan of the illustrations and questions that drive the case; finally, here is the typescript of the answer key.

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Antibodies

If there is a better time to post this reading on antibodies and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet, I can’t imagine when it would be.

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Derring-do (n)

It’s an old-fashioned word, and may in fact one of those nouns that the late, great Joseph Mitchell called “tinsel words.” Nonetheless, here is a context clues worksheet on the noun derring-do. It means, for those who have never seen an Errol Flynn film, “daring action” and is often used in the locution “deeds of derring-do.”

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A Lesson Plan on the Greek Word Root Biblio-

Here is a complete lesson plan on the Greek word root biblio-, which means, simply, book. This is a very productive root in English (think Bible, among other words). If you are an English or Social Studies teacher, chances are you’ve asked your students to produce a (maybe even an annotated one) bibliography–i.e. some writing, in list form, about books

I open this lesson with this context clues worksheet on the noun novel as a way of hinting to students where this lesson is going. Finally, here is the worksheet that is the basis of the learning for this lesson.

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