Tag Archives: building vocabulary/conceptual knowledge

It was the Word of the Day at Merriam-Webster yesterday, so here today is context clues worksheet on perennial used as an adjective. Gardeners know this word as a noun, so I am aware of this document’s limitations–including the fact that it doesn’t include, ah, some of the strongest context ever to flow from my pen.

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.

I do understand that it’s hard to believe that this context clues worksheet on the verb galumph  represents a real word. It does: it’s used intransitively and means, you might not be quite as surprised to hear, “to move with a heavy, clumsy tread.” If nothing else, it’s a word that would suffice well, I think, to introduce or reinforce the concept of onomatopoeia.

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.

Hot off the press (it was Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day yesterday), here is a context clues worksheet on abandon. This isn’t the verb, but rather the abstract noun signifying, as Merriam-Webster’s has it, “a thorough yielding to natural impulses; esp: ENTHUSIASM, EXUBERANCE.”

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.