Here’s a short exercise on the Greek word root latry which your students will quickly figure out means, when it appears in word, worship of something. I use these exercises at the beginning of lessons to get students settled and thinking in terms of patterns in knowledge.
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Because I work in a high school, I hear a lot of foul language. I’ve tried to take the high road on this, teaching students about how certain linguistic registers apply to certain social situations, and vice versa. One way I’ve tried to do this is to introduce, by way of this context clues worksheet on the adjective risque, the idea that there are some things–and I emphasize that things are represented by words we call nouns–that are just too, well, risque to utter in certain company (e.g. teachers) and some circumstances (e.g. schools).
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Here is a context clues worksheet on the transitive verb quell. It seems like a word students ought to know.
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Here is a a context clues worksheet on the verb submit, which is used both transitively and intransitively.
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This context clues on the noun mayhem probably describes more schools in this country than any teacher or administrator would care to acknowledge. It certainly most accurately designates the school in which I currently serve.
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High school students probably should know the transitive verb invoke, so here’s a context clues worksheet on it to aid you in teaching students this word.
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Here’s a context clues worksheet on the noun proviso. This one might be particularly useful to you if you teach United States history and deal with the Wilmot Proviso.
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OK: It has been some time since I posted an entire lesson plan, so for this week’s Text I offer a complete lesson that introduces students to prepositions. This lesson begins with two (the second one in the event that the lesson runs to two days) do-now exercises, namely Everyday Edits worksheets, the first one on the Surrender at Appomattox and the the second one on the Modern Olympic Games. (Incidentally, if you like these Everyday Edit Worksheets, the good people at Education World give them away at their site, and you will find the answer keys to them there as well.)
The mainstay of this lesson is this scaffolded proofreading and cloze exercise worksheet that introduces students to prepositions and their uses. Here is a learning support on prepositions that accompanies this lesson (and all six lessons in this unit, which I will post over time, I suppose). Finally, here is a teacher’s copy and answer key to assist you as you deliver this lesson.
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When I was teaching a unit on Rome, this context clues worksheet on the noun magistrate seemed like something I needed to have. In any case, it is a word in common enough use today to be worth teaching.
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Just below this post, you’ll find a context clues worksheet on the noun and adjective plebeian. Here is a context clues worksheet on the noun and adjective patrician to accompany it. Once again, I’ve combined two parts of speech in this worksheet, again because they are the same word with the same basic meanings. Maybe the two parts of speech require separate worksheet, but I haven’t found that to be the case so far in using this. This worksheet might present teachers with an opportunity to help students gain an understanding of basic English usage.
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