Here is a context clues worksheet on the verb devise, which is used only transitively. In other words, don’t forget the direct object naming what you intend to devise.
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Moving right along this morning, here is a lesson plan on the Crime and Puzzlement case “Of Ghouls and Goblins.”
I open this lesson with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept of the role model. Finally, to execute this lesson, you’ll need the PDF of the illustration and questions and the typescript of the answer key.
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Here are five homophone worksheets on the nouns troop and troupe.
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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Sword of Damocles. This expression, which comments on the ever-present danger to those in power from their courtiers. You’ll hear this turn up occasionally as an idiom in educated discourse.
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OK, here, on a sunny Sunday morning, is a lesson plan on collective nouns and subject-verb agreement. I open this lesson with this Everyday Edit worksheet on artist Alexander Calder (and, as always, in the interest of giving credit where credit is due, remember that you can find a year’s worth of Everyday Edit worksheets–for free–at the Education World website). I include this learning support on forming plural nouns with this lesson.
This scaffolded worksheet is at the center of the lesson. Finally, here is the teacher’s copy of the worksheet.
Parenthetically, let me mention that I have tagged this as a Weekly Text. Normally, I only post a Weekly Text on Friday, then cross-post it at the AFT’s Share My Lesson website. Until the COVID19 crisis passes, I’ll be putting up materials I would normally only post as Weekly Texts as, well let’s call them Daily Texts.
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To finish the day, here is a worksheet on the Latin word roots loqu and locu. They mean to speak and are very productive in English, particularly with words like loquacious and locution used in educated discourse.
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Here is a context clues worksheet on the verb disparage, which is only used transitively. Don’t forget your direct object! You must disparage someone or something. If you need help deciding, drop a comment–I’m happy to help!
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Here is a lesson plan on the Crime and Puzzlement case “In All That Rain.”
I use this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the noun phrase and idiom “Rank and File” to open this lesson. Here is a scan of the illustration and questions that is the work of this lesson, as well as a typescript of the answer key.
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“polysemy: The property of a single word which has two or more distinct but related senses. Thus the noun screen is polysemous, since it is used variously of a fire screen, a cinema screen, a television screen, and so on.
Compare homonymy. The difference, in principle, is that in cases of homonymy the senses are quite unconnected; therefore they are not treated as belonging to the same word. But in many cases, it is hard to decide, and in theories of meaning the distinction is not always seen as valid.”
Excerpted from: Matthews, P.H., ed. The Oxford Concise Dictionary of Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Here are a reading on Richard III and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet that has a number of uses in both social studies and English language arts classes, I would think.
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