Tag Archives: building vocabulary/conceptual knowledge

Cultural Literacy: Cyberspace

Here, on a Sunday morning, is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept of cyberspace. Does anyone use that word anymore?

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Naive (adj)

Over the years, I’ve developed a lot a material to aid struggling students As the documents pile up, I don’t always succeed at properly cataloging them. At least that is the best explanation I can produce to explain how I ended up with these two context clues worksheet for the adjective naive. I imagine this is a word that students know when they leave high school–but I like to make sure.

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Word Root Worksheet: Ortho

Here’s a worksheet on the Greek word root ortho. It means “straight,” “correct,” “vertical,” and “perpendicular.” You know, those things you hope your orthopedist can do for you posture–the first two at least, I guess.

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.

Quota (n)

Here is a context clues worksheet on the noun quota. By any measure, this is a key word for any vocabulary.

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Which (adj/pron) and Witch (n)

Here are five worksheets on the homophones which and witch. In my classrooms, over the years, these two are very commonly confused, most often with the latter standing in where the former belongs.

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Array (n) and Array (v)

Here are two context clues worksheets on the word array, the first as a noun and the second as a verb.

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Errant (adj)

Here is a context clues worksheet on the adjective errant. You may know it means: “a : straying outside the proper path or bounds <an ~ calf>  b : moving about aimlessly or irregularly <an ~ breeze>  c : behaving wrongly <an ~ child>  d : FALLIBLE,” (Merriam-Webster. Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (Kindle Locations 143332-143334). Merriam-Webster, Inc.. Kindle Edition).

You can use it to say things like “As he is wont to do, at his professional development session the principal advanced an argument of errant nonsense.”

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.

Word Root Exercise: Pale/o

Here’s a worksheet on the Greek word root pale/o; it means ancient. This is another of those roots that produces a lot of words across the common branch curriculum. 

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Entrepot (n)

Although it doesn’t appear often in texts in secondary school texts (I did encounter it frequently in text while working on my undergraduate degree), entrepot might pop up once or twice. While I realize that might be a relatively thin rationale for the existence of this context clues worksheet on the noun entrepot, I offer it to you nonetheless.

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The Weekly Text, June 22, 2018: A Lesson Plan on Developing Thesis Statements

This week’s Text is a lesson plan on postulating theses, i.e developing thesis statements, I wrote for somewhat more advanced students in our Wednesday afternoon institute class. Here is the worksheet that attends the lesson and the teacher’s copy of the worksheet. I wrote this last fall, and used it once; if ever you felt inclined to comment on Mark’s Text Terminal, I would enthusiastically welcome your comments on these documents. The unit of which they are a part is still in the developmental stage.

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.