Tag Archives: context clues

Here is a context clues worksheet on the adjective astute. As it means “having or showing shrewdness and perspicacity” I think it’s a word students should know.

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 squander; it’s used both transitively and intransitively.

It’s that thing–you know–that happens with talent in public institutions.

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Here, on a Monday morning, is a context clues worksheet on the adjective squeamish. Yeah–a perfect word for a Monday morning, therefore one our students should know as they face their own working lives of Monday mornings.

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 noun controversy, which is a word high-schoolers really ought to know. It’s a word that shows up across the curricula in the social sciences and humanities.

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.

OK, we’re back after a much-needed break. Despite thirty-one degree temperatures in Lower Manhattan this morning, it begins to look a lot like spring in New York City. Here is a context clues worksheet on the noun adage to kick off these last two months of the school year.

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, on a relatively warm Monday morning, is a context clues worksheet on the noun zealot. I wrote this, if memory serves, to attend a lesson on Maximilien Robespierre.

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.

Yesterday’s rain gave way to a bright, crisp and windy Wednesday morning here in Manhattan. I wish I weren’t in a windowless building at this hour.

Here is a context clues worksheet on the adjective ruthless. It’s a timely word, I think.

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.

It’s Regents testing week here in New York City, so I am on a “C” schedule; I’m not required at work until almost noon. If I could work a schedule like this all the time, I would be a perpetually happy camper.

Here are two context clues worksheets on the noun squalor and the adjective squalid. These are good words to use when discussing, say, the Nazis.

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.