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The Weekly Text, January 13, 2017: An Introductory Lesson on Adverbs

It’s Friday the thirteenth, and time for another Weekly Text. I’ve begun revising my unit on adverbs, so this week, I offer you a lesson plan that introduces students to adverbs.

Like most if not all of the lessons I post here, I’ve prepared this one to take place over two days, given the contingencies of attention issues, disruptive behavior, and the like. So, there are two do-now exercises to open this lesson: the first is this do-now Cultural Literacy Worksheet on run-on sentences; the second is a context clues worksheet on the adjective superlative. (It’s worth mentioning in passing that this word is also used to describe the utmost degree of adjectives; some time ago I posted the introductory lesson of my adjectives unit, and over time I’ll post the entire unit, one lesson of which covers the degrees–synthetic, comparative, and superlative–of adjectives, so this do-now exercise might also serve you well in that capacity.)

The mainstay of the lesson is a scaffolded worksheet on understanding adverbs and their use. I imagine you will find the teachers’copy/answer key for the worksheet.

That’s it until next week.

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.

Envoy (n.)

Here, on a muggy and warm (49 degrees at 5:00 a.m.) Thursday morning in The Bronx, is a context clues worksheet on the noun envoy.

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Discern (vt./vi)

Here’s another context clues worksheet, this one on the verb discern.

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Impetus (n)

Here’s a context clues worksheet on the noun impetus, which is a word I think high school students ought to know by the time they graduate.

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Crucial (adj.)

Today I’m trying to clean up some folders and put up a few new posts, trying to catch up to my usual pace of work. Here’s a context clues worksheet on the adjective crucial. I hope it’s useful–it’s another commonly used word in English.

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.

Ravage (vt/vi)

For some reason, Merriam-Webster’s 11th Collegiate gives both transitive and intransitive definitions for ravage in its use as a verb. I can’t imagine using it without a direct object. In any case, here is a context clues worksheet on the verb ravage. It’s in common enough usage in the English language that high school students ought to know it.

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.

The Weekly Text, December 23, 2016: Two Context Clues Worksheets on Juxtapose and Juxtaposition

Our schools here in New York are closed for the holidays next week, so I plan to spend as little time as possible in front of this computer. That means this is the final Weekly Text for 2016. I offer this context clues worksheet on the transitive verb juxtapose and this one on the noun juxtaposition for this week’s Text.

Happy Holidays! I’ll see you in 2017.

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.

Primary (adj)

I’m working on some new freshman global studies lessons that will use primary documents, so here’s a context clues worksheet on the adjective primary.

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.

Amid (prep)

Here’s a context clues worksheet on the preposition amid.

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The Weekly Text, December 9, 2016: An Introductory Lesson Plan on Adjectives

This week’s Text, which I hasten to post so I can plan and execute some new global studies lessons, is an introductory lesson plan on adjectives. I begin this lesson with this context clues worksheet on the noun attribute; this word is a piece of prior knowledge that students can use when they encounter the term attributive adjectives. I have a more explicit lesson on attributive adjective that I’ll post in the not too distant future (I’m in the middle of revising it, for one thing). If this lesson stretches into a second day because of behavior that derails instruction, then here is an Everyday Edits worksheet titled “Sled Dogs Save Nome.” This proofreading worksheet that introduces the adjective is the mainstay of this lesson. Finally, you will probably find useful the teacher’s copy/answer key for the worksheet.

That’s it.

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.