Tag Archives: context clues

While I sit here waiting for files to backup to a flash drive, I’ll take a minute to post this context clues worksheet on the adjective fallow. If memory serves, and I’m confident it does, I wrote this to assist students in developing the concept of a fallow farm field for a co-teacher’s lesson on the medieval agricultural practice of three-field crop rotation.

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.

Here is, in observation of Labor Day 2018, a context clues worksheet on the verb exploit. It is apparently only used transitively. This is one of those words with some subtle connotations, so this document alone will probably not suffice to fully flesh them out.

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.

Although it appears to be a virtue that is fading from our public and personal lives, here, nonetheless, is a context clues worksheet on the noun empathy. I’d like to think someone, somewhere, needs this material.

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.

I don’t know if there is much call for it in schools, but here, in any case, is a Context Clues worksheet on the verb demonize. Apparently it is only used transtively.

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.

Here is a context clues worksheet on the verb debate, which is used both intransitively and transitively. I wrote this originally to attend a unit I wrote on Denzel Washington’s film The Great Debaters. Needless to say, this is really a word high-schoolers ought to know and be able to use–fluently.

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.