Tag Archives: context clues

Convey (vt)

Here is a context clues worksheet on the verb convey. It is used only transitively. This is, incidentally, for those teachers working with English language learners, one of those polysemous words that may require more than one run through for students. It can mean to move an object from one place to another, but also to communicate ideas and feelings. Helping students sort this out may require finesse; it’s easy enough to duplicate this document and use two worksheets to convey (if you will!) the two meanings of this word more carefully and completely.

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Convince (vt)

Here’s a context clues worksheet on the verb convince; it is only used transitively. I’m sure I don’t need to nag teachers on the importance of students fully understanding the meaning and use of this word.

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A Lesson Plan on the Latin Word Roots Graph and Graphy

OK, last but not least this morning, before I head out to the grocery store (aside: don’t forget to thank the brave workers staffing our grocery stores–if there is any justice in this world, they will emerge from this pandemic among–to use another word deriving from. the Latin root pan–among the pantheon of heroes), here is a lesson plan on the Latin word roots graph and graphy. These mean writing, written, recording, drawing and science; you will recognize immediately, even before looking at the scaffolded worksheet at the center of this lesson, that these are two very productive roots in English.

I open this lesson with this context clues worksheet on the verb record, which is used both intransitively and transitively.

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Corrupt (adj), Corrupt (vi/vt), Corruption (n)

For reasons that I’ll assume are obvious (given my best efforts to temper this, my little blog has taken a modest slide into political commentary of late, owing entirely to my frustration with the insanity and idiocy of this nation’s president). it seems to me a perfect time to post three context clues worksheets, the first on corrupt as an adjective, the second on the same word as a verb (which is used both intransitively and transitively), and, finally, on the noun corruption.

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.

Democracy (n)

Again, if this context clues worksheet on the noun democracy isn’t timely, particularly in light of the president’s latest craziness, than I guess I don’t, after all, understand the use of timely as an adjective. For the record, I learned, after consulting my dictionary, that timely means, in one sense “appropriate or adapted to the times or occasion.”

So yeah, I stand by this document as timely at this moment in history.

And as long I as I am presuming to write things into the record, please remember that United States presidents do not have absolute power–in fact, no one in the government does. That’s why we have a separation of powers in our Constitution. At the risk of belaboring the point, let’s not forget that the founders of this country fought a revolutionary war against a British sovereign who liked to think of himself as possessing absolute power.

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.

Deport (vt)

While I regret posting this at a particularly toxic political moment for vulnerable people on the move across the globe, here nonetheless is a context clues worksheet on the verb deport. It is only used transitively as, alas, people seeking a better life have so harshly learned.

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.

Disburse (vt)

Here is a context clues worksheet on the verb disburse, which is only used transitively. This is a word students really ought to know, especially as they proceed to the bursar’s office at the college or university they attend.

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A Lesson Plan on the Latin Word Roots Deca, Dec, Deka, and Deci

Here is a lesson plan on the Latin word roots deca, dec, deka, and deci. The first three mean ten, but deci means tenth. As you have probably already inferred, especially you math teachers, this is a very productive root in English, and will lead students to understand a wide variety of words for transfer across the curriculum.

I open this lesson with this context clues worksheet on the noun cipher. This word root worksheet is the mainstay of this lesson.

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Delegate (n/vi/vt)

Here are a pair of worksheets on delegate as a noun and a verb. As a verb it is used both intransitively and transitively–and the stress shifts to the penultimate vowel a–as in delegate, like the thing you walk through to enter a zoo or park.

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A Lesson Plan on the Latin Word Root Cred

Before I move on to other things today, here is a lesson plan on the Latin word root cred, which means believe. Other than to observe that this is an extremely productive root in English, and forms the basis of words–credit, credibility, incredible–we use pretty much constantly, I won’t belabor the point, even though, in fact, I just did.

Anyway, I open this lesson with this context clues worksheet on the noun tenet. Finally, here is the word root worksheet that is the centerpiece of this lesson.

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.