Tag Archives: context clues

Here is a context clues worksheet on the transitive verb explicate, which is used transitively only. This is one of those verbs that the authors of The Writing Revolution call an “expository term.” In other words, this is a good word for high school students to know so they can learn to, you know, explicate things in the writing work we assign.

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While I realize it is not word in particularly common use (not to mention students in secondary schools one hopes, not experienced the concept in their own lives yet), I think there is nonetheless the place in the high school classroom for this context clues worksheet on the noun nadir.

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If a teacher maintains a healthy sense of humor about him- or herself, I would argue, he or she will find him- or herself as the butt of students’ jokes, which may even manifest itself in classroom banter. Put another way, and more subjectively, my students and I have had a few laughs at my expense on more than one occasion.

Students should possess the vocabulary to describe this badinage, hence the arrival of this context clues worksheet on the transitive verb heckle, which doesn’t exactly describe this classroom situation; that said, it gives teacher and students an opportunity to discuss the difference between heckling and banter.

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Here is a context clues worksheet on the adjective jocular. While not a word in particularly common usage these days, it is a good word to know nonetheless.

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Here is a context clues worksheet on the noun mainstay. It’s a commonly used word, maybe even a mainstay of the English language. But very, very few of my students over the years have known it; they should.

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 are two context clues worksheets on the adjective mediocre and the noun mediocrity. I probably shouldn’t own up to this, but I wrote these so my students in Manhattan would have words to describe their experience as students in the New York City Department of Education.

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.