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.
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“A traditional term for a VERBAL NOUN, in English a word ending in –ing: visiting in They appreciate my visiting their parents regularly. Like a noun, it can be introduced by the genitive my (compare I visit their parents). Some object to the non-genitive usage and avoid at least for names and pronouns, preferring They appreciate Bill’s visiting their parents to They appreciate Bill visiting their parents and They appreciate my visiting their parents to They appreciate me visiting their parents.”
Excerpted from: McArthur, Tom. The Oxford Concise Companion to the English Language. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Here are five worksheets on the homophones two, too, and to, which I am confident you have noticed that are frequently confused–sometimes to hilarious effect (i.e. Dumb and Dumber To), but more often just, well, confusing effect.
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Here’s a learning support for differentiating between restrictive and non-restrictive clauses that I use when I teach this particular element of good style in writing.
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Here is a context clues worksheet on the noun euphemism, which I think high school students, particularly in the media environment which we currently occupy, really ought to know and be able to use.
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Here is a reading on Babe Ruth and the comprehension worksheet that accompanies it. Not much to say about this other than it tends to be high-interest material.
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Here, on a cool Saturday morning in July, are five worksheets on the homophones you’re and your. These are two words frequently confused.
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Here, if you can use it, is a context clues worksheet on the adjective prolific. This is a word that comes up quite a bit in casual discourse, particularly in connection with the production of artists, writers, and musicians.
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As I sit down to publish this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the digital divide, I wonder if it is still relevant. It looks like, to some extent, the availability of relatively cheap smartphones have done something to close this gap. At the same time, as net neutrality ends, the divide may reopen with different fissure lines. And as far as smartphones go, yes they are readily available; but neither smartphones themselves nor the data plans that make them useful are created equal. On could make the argument that the lines of the digital divide now run along the lines of smartphones and the plans that drive them.
If nothing else, this worksheet introduces students to the idea that social class determines what one has access to in our society, so this worksheet could be used to open a conceptual inquiry on social class and the extent to which it circumscribes life itself.
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While I doubt it’s a word that comes up much in any teacher’s classroom, I nonetheless wrote this context clues worksheet on the noun polymath. Because polymath is basically synonymous with Renaissance man, it seems like a word high school students ought to know to understand this important intellectual and cultural dimension of the Renaissance.
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