For the first time in about a week, I needn’t drive anywhere today. That’s a relief.
Here, if you can use it, is a context clues worksheet on surrogate in its use as a noun. I imagine this document could be easily converted to show this word’s use as an adjective as well.
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This week’s Text, delivered from Vermont, the only place to be in this month, is a complete lesson plan on the Latin word root cent–which means, you will instantly recognize, and your students will before long, hundred. I use this context clues worksheet on the noun myriad to open this lesson–it gives students a hint about where to look for the meaning of cent. Finally, here is the scaffolded worksheet that is the mainstay of this lesson. It includes cognates, so if you’re working with Spanish-speaking students–or students who speak any or the other Romance languages–they will find words they already know in that list.
You are, I hope, enjoying your summer.
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Here’s a context clues worksheet on the verb solicit, which is used both intransitively and transitively. This is a pretty commonly used word in English, so students should probably learn it before graduating high school.
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If you’re interested in teaching your students terms of art that represent concepts in learning, then this context clues worksheet on the adjective semantic might be useful. You could also use this document as a template for a context clues worksheet on the noun semantics. Either way, these words represent a concept–the use of language to create meaning–that students probably ought to know before they graduate high school.
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This context clues worksheet on the adverb seldom–nota bene that it’s also used as an adjective–introduces a word in common enough use in English that students would benefit from knowing it.
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As we start to turn the corner to August, here is a context clues worksheet on the verb scrutinize. It’s used both transitively and intransitively. This is one of those expository and analytical words students, particularly those in high school, ought to know.
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Elsewhere on this blog I have posted lessons from the opening unit of the adapted freshmen global studies I used while teaching in New York. The idea for this, as I have also mentioned elsewhere, came from an Introduction to Liberal Studies class at Amherst College called, unsurprisingly, “Causes of History.” That was an interdisciplinary course that various students in my Russian classes (I was a Hampshire student taking Russian at Amherst) called “causes of misery.”
In any case, the phrase stuck in my mind, and I decided to appropriate it for a unit on basic concepts in historical inquiry for the struggling students I served. So this lesson plan on technology as a cause of history is one of a series of ten in that unit. The challenge I find is that students possess a very narrow view of technology; unless something is electronic, they don’t consider it technology. So this context clues worksheet on the noun technology aims to broaden their definition and understanding of this concept. When the first early human discovered how to use sharp stones as a knife or a hammer to open bones and get at the high protein marrow within, that piece of stone was a technological advance. Technology, this lesson means to convey, is anything that makes work and life easier and causes advances in human development.
For that reason, this worksheet for this lesson is really a note-taking blank. This is really a brainstorming lesson designed to get kids to revise their understanding of technology so that they can see, for example, that something as basic as the wheel was a significant technological advance–and that it moved history along as surely as it moved goods and people along trade routes.
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Here is a context clues worksheet on the noun tier, which is a word students should know by the time they leave high school. This is a very common noun in educated discourse, in which I want the students I serve to participate. It means, on this worksheet, layer. This word, to my mild surprise, also has use as a verb.
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Here are a pair of context clues worksheets on supply as both a noun and a verb. As a verb, it is used both transitively and intransitively.
I worked in an economics-themed high school for ten years, so you’ll understand the word in two parts of speech.
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On a morning of soft sunlight and warm temperatures in Western Massachusetts, here is a context clues worksheet on the verb affiliate. It has both intransitive and transitive uses.
And this worksheet, like just about everything on Mark’s Text Terminal, is in Microsoft Word. That means you can convert it to a worksheet on affiliate as a noun, should you see fit.
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