Tag Archives: building vocabulary/conceptual knowledge

Invoke (vt)

High school students probably should know the transitive verb invoke, so here’s a context clues worksheet on it to aid you in teaching students this word.

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Proviso (n)

Here’s a context clues worksheet on the noun proviso. This one might be particularly useful to you if you teach United States history and deal with the Wilmot Proviso.

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The Weekly Text, June 2, 2017: An Introductory Lesson on Prepositions

OK: It has been some time since I posted an entire lesson plan, so for this week’s Text I offer a complete lesson that introduces students to prepositions. This lesson begins with two (the second one in the event that the lesson runs to two days) do-now exercises, namely Everyday Edits worksheets, the first one on the Surrender at Appomattox and the the second one on the Modern Olympic Games. (Incidentally, if you like these Everyday Edit Worksheets, the good people at Education World give them away at their site, and you will find the answer keys to them there as well.)

The mainstay of this lesson is this scaffolded proofreading and cloze exercise worksheet that introduces students to prepositions and their uses. Here is a learning support on prepositions that accompanies this lesson (and all six lessons in this unit, which I will post over time, I suppose). Finally, here is a teacher’s copy and answer key to assist you as you deliver this lesson.

That’s it. 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.

Magistrate (n)

When I was teaching a unit on Rome, this context clues worksheet on the noun magistrate seemed like something I needed to have. In any case, it is a word in common enough use today to be worth teaching.

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Patrician (n/adj)

Just below this post, you’ll find a context clues worksheet on the noun and adjective plebeian. Here is a context clues worksheet on the noun and adjective patrician to accompany it. Once again, I’ve combined two parts of speech in this worksheet, again because they are the same word with the same basic meanings. Maybe the two parts of speech require separate worksheet, but I haven’t found that to be the case so far in using this. This worksheet might present teachers with an opportunity to help students gain an understanding of basic English usage.

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Plebeian (n/adj)

This context clues worksheet on the noun and adjective plebeian might take your students part of the way to understanding social class. I’ve set it up as both a noun and an adjective because the words are the same, and because they mean the same thing. Perhaps these two words in their two parts of speech require separate worksheets, but so far I haven’t thought so. If nothing else, you could use this to assist students in developing their own understanding of how the parts of speech function in sentences.

The next context clues worksheet I post will be patrician to complement this worksheet.

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Monsoon (n)

If your global studies curriculum includes a unit on the Indus River Valley, or the Indian subcontinent in general, here is a context clues worksheet on the noun monsoon that you might find useful.

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Investigate (vt/vi)

Science teachers at the very least might find useful this context clues worksheet on the transitive and intransitive verb investigate.

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Justice (n)

If there is a reason that high school students shouldn’t have a clear understanding of the word justice, I can’t think of what it could be. Perhaps this context clues on that noun will aid you in teaching it to your students.

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Litigate (vi/vt)

Should you have students looking down the road at law school, it’s probably never too early in high school to use this context clues worksheet on the verb litigate–it’s used both intransitively and transitively–with them.

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