Because it is an important word in the global studies classes I teach, I finally wrote a context clues worksheet on the adjective indigenous.
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Since we hope it is the quality of their attention in our classrooms, here is a-context-clues worksheet on the adjective rapt to remind students, if nothing else, that it is what we hope we can inspire in them in their attention to their studies.
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We’ve just passed through a week of Regents Tests here in New York, a round of high stakes tests that decide the status of a student’s diploma. I always find this a depressing exercise, because it penalizes perfectly able kids who don’t test well. Perhaps one day we’ll live in a society that educates students as they are (or how they are–poorly written IEPs notwithstanding)–and builds on that–rather than a theoretical “where they should be.”
This week’s Text is a lesson on numerical adjectives. Because this lesson is at about the halfway point in my adjectives unit, I begin it with this do now-exercise on parsing sentences to find adjectives. If the lesson runs into a second day for all the reasons that some lessons do when presented to struggling learners, then you may also need this Cultural Literacy worksheet on carpe diem. The mainstay of the lesson is a scaffolded worksheet on numerical adjectives that begins with modified cloze exercises and concludes with independent practice using numerical adjectives in grammatically complete declarative sentences. You might also find the teachers’ copy/answer key useful.
Because I teach English Language Arts and social studies to the same group of students, I teach the concept of cardinal numbers (the counting numbers like one, two, three, etc.) and ordinal numbers (those numbers we use to order or rank things, as in first, second, third, etc.) in a lesson about historical dates and understanding how to understand the ordinally numbered centuries. I call on the prior knowledge from that global studies lesson for this one on numerical adjectives; both cardinal and ordinal numbers are used as adjectives. Ten days to two weeks separate the presentation of these two lessons, so the timing allows me a chance to assess students’ memories and capacity for retention.
This is also an important concept in grammar for students to understand. When I took Russian as an older undergraduate, I had to go back and study the difference between these two types of numbers and their use. If your students need help in understanding the meaning of these terms and the concepts they represent, then here’s a context clues worksheet on the term cardinal numbers and another on the adjective ordinal.
That’s it. Next week begins Black History Month, followed in March by Women’s History Month. I’ll post plenty of readings for both.
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I’ve been going through a folder in which I set aside a bunch of context clues worksheets I developed to go with some global studies lessons. So, here’s a context clues worksheet on the adjective clandestine. This is another common word in English that high school students, I submit, ought to know.
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Recently, I posted a context clues worksheet on the adjective prudent. I put the cart before the horse in writing that, because I really needed an exercise on the noun prude to attend a short English lesson I wrote. If you need a context clues worksheet on this word, just click the hypertext above.
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This week’s text is a worksheet on the Latin word root uni, which means, of course, one. To accompany it, and provide a do-now exercise or two, are a context clues worksheet on unite and another on labor union Under our current circumstances, labor union might be a concept and word students should know.
That’s it for this week. I hope these worksheets are useful to you.
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Here’s a context clues worksheet on the adjective prudent. I wrote it to attend something or other; in any case, it’s a word highschoolers ought to know.
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I can’t remember why I wrote this context clues worksheet on the noun font, but here it is if you can use it.
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Last week I published a context clue on the verb discern here; here is a context clues worksheet on the noun discernment to accompany it.
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It’s Friday the thirteenth, and time for another Weekly Text. I’ve begun revising my unit on adverbs, so this week, I offer you a lesson plan that introduces students to adverbs.
Like most if not all of the lessons I post here, I’ve prepared this one to take place over two days, given the contingencies of attention issues, disruptive behavior, and the like. So, there are two do-now exercises to open this lesson: the first is this do-now Cultural Literacy Worksheet on run-on sentences; the second is a context clues worksheet on the adjective superlative. (It’s worth mentioning in passing that this word is also used to describe the utmost degree of adjectives; some time ago I posted the introductory lesson of my adjectives unit, and over time I’ll post the entire unit, one lesson of which covers the degrees–synthetic, comparative, and superlative–of adjectives, so this do-now exercise might also serve you well in that capacity.)
The mainstay of the lesson is a scaffolded worksheet on understanding adverbs and their use. I imagine you will find the teachers’copy/answer key for the worksheet.
That’s it until next week.
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