If you teach social studies, you might be able to use this context clues worksheet on the noun textile. It’s a term that repeats a sufficient number of times in the curriculum, I would think, that we ought to help students gain mastery of it as early as possible.
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Because I think it’s a concept high school students ought to understand, I offer this Cultural Literacy worksheet on alienation this morning.
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If you deal with student writing, I’ll hazard a guess that you’ve seen in it more than once confusion between the transitive (mostly) and intransitive (so used in some instances) verb accept and the multi-purpose–it serves as both a transitive and intransitive verb, as well as a preposition and a conjunction–word except.
So, for this week’s Text, I offer these five homophone worksheets on accept and except. The first three of them are ten cloze blanks each, then the final two each contain five cloze blanks. If one wanted to make more of these, it wouldn’t be hard, via the miracle of copy and paste, to turn the first three worksheets into six.
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.
Here is a short exercise on the Greek Word root alg/o–it means pain–which can help students get settled after the transition between classes. This is also a vocabulary-building endeavor; I like to think these worksheets also–passively–assist students in developing pattern recognition in language.
Nonetheless, this is another medical root that will show up in words in the healthcare professions, if you have students headed in that direction.
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Here is a short Cultural Literacy exercise on understatement. I use these to get class periods started, as well as to help those students who struggle with transitions between classes to settle themselves and focus on the work at hand.
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Here’s a short exercise on the Greek word root latry which your students will quickly figure out means, when it appears in word, worship of something. I use these exercises at the beginning of lessons to get students settled and thinking in terms of patterns in knowledge.
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Because I work in a high school, I hear a lot of foul language. I’ve tried to take the high road on this, teaching students about how certain linguistic registers apply to certain social situations, and vice versa. One way I’ve tried to do this is to introduce, by way of this context clues worksheet on the adjective risque, the idea that there are some things–and I emphasize that things are represented by words we call nouns–that are just too, well, risque to utter in certain company (e.g. teachers) and some circumstances (e.g. schools).
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Here is a context clues worksheet on the transitive verb quell. It seems like a word students ought to know.
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Here is a a context clues worksheet on the verb submit, which is used both transitively and intransitively.
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This context clues on the noun mayhem probably describes more schools in this country than any teacher or administrator would care to acknowledge. It certainly most accurately designates the school in which I currently serve.
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