Can you use this worksheet on the Latin word roots arium, orium and ary? They mean, simply, “a place for.” When you consider words like aquarium, emporium, and aviary, you begin to see just how productive this word root is in English.
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“The process of discussing or going over new information in order to form connections with familiar information, a process that helps memory and affects depth of processing. There is a great deal of evidence in support of the idea that the more details are processed and repeated, the more likely they are to be retrieved from long-term memory.”
Excerpted from: Turkington, Carol, and Joseph R. Harris, PhD. The Encyclopedia of Learning Disabilities. New York: Facts on File, 2006.
It’s Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day today, and it is, I think you’ll agree, a strong abstract noun for our time. Therefore, I wrote this context clues worksheet on the noun bunkum. It means “insincere or foolish talk” and “nonsense.” The context clues I provided are relatively solid, if a bit trite.
This word was a favorite of legendary iconoclastic newspaperman H.L. Mencken; indeed, a posthumous collection of Mencken’s is titled A Carnival of Buncombe. That spelling of the word, incidentally, indicates its etymology, which is a circuitous tale involving Buncombe County, North Carolina, and Felix Walker, the United States Representative who served the district from 1816 to 1822.
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Alright, last but not least today, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on social mobility. I don’t want to get all Marxist about this, but this is really a concept high school students should know, especially high school students in struggling, inner-city schools.
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I’m catching up on the last several Words of the Day from Merriam-Webster, so here is a context clues worksheet on the adjective docile. This modifier is in common enough use, I submit, to warrant its teaching to high school students–if not earlier.
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OK, moving along on a warm afternoon, here is a lesson plan on the Crime and Puzzlement case “Picnic.”
I open this lesson, to get kids settled after the class change, with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the proverb “All’s Fair in Love and War.” You’ll need this PDF of the illustration, reading, and questions to conduct your investigation. Finally, to bring your suspect to justice, here is the typescript of the answer key for this case.
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“Number: A feature of nouns, pronouns and a few verbs, referring to a singular or plural. A subject and its corresponding verb must be consistent in number; a pronoun should agree in number with its antecedent. A solo flute plays; two oboes join in.”
Excerpted from: Strunk, William Jr., and E.B. White. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition. New York: Longman, 2000.
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It’s Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day today, and because I’m sure I encountered student confusion over its use in a social studies textbook at some point, here is a context clues worksheet on the adjective impregnable.
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Slowly but surely I am figuring out the new Block Editor on WordPress. So, let me try to add this reading on the Boston Tea Party and the vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet that accompanies it. I imagine these materials will find a home someplace in a United States history course.
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It’s Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day today, so here is a context clues worksheet on the noun plaudit. It’s not a commonly used word, but it is a strong noun. I think it might be worth asking students, via Socratic questioning, to make the connection with applaud, a strong verb used both intransitively and transitively.
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