If you teach English, you might find this context clues worksheet on the adjective pithy helpful in assisting student in developing an understanding of why much of the best writing is concise (a synonym for pithy, and vice versa).
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I just whipped up this context clues worksheet on the noun antecedent in an attempt to help students understand pronoun-antecedent agreement. It’s some distance from perfect, and I expect I’ll need to take another look at it down the road. If you can use it, it’s yours. If you modify it, I would be interested in hearing what you did with it.
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Teenagers can be awfully cruel to one another, which is why I always keep a context clues worksheet on the verb ostracize handy. After all, even if a student is suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous friends, why squander a teachable moment?
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Here are two context clues worksheets on the verb descend and the noun descendant. As you will infer from the choice of the noun, these are the definitions of these words that relate to origins rather than moving in a downward direction. I like to use these early in the year in global studies classes.
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Here is a context clues worksheet on the verb reverberate. It can be used both transitively and intransitively, but this worksheet uses it intransitively.
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If you teach any topic in social studies, you might find this context clues on the adjective populous useful.
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This week’s Text is a series of worksheets related to the the Greek word root pro. I’d originally planned to post these about a month ago, but I became embroiled in a controversy of my own invention over this root, which I had always understood as Latin in origin, as it forms the basis of so many Latin words. The word root dictionary I use for this kind of work, Roger S. Crutchfield’s English Vocabulary Quick Reference: A Comprehensive Dictionary Arranged by Word Roots (Leesburg, VA: Lexadyne Publishing, 2009) lists pro as a Greek root, even though it forms the basis of so many Latin words.
Because I’m not a linguist, but rather a special education teacher in a high school, I struggled with this. In the final analysis, I’ve decided, pro is a Greek root that found its way into Latin–and means essentially the same thing in both languages, which is before, forward, forth, in place of, and in addition to. Crutchfield’s dictionary breaks down some of these words in their Greek and Latin parts. One word on the worksheet below, pro bono, is Latin, but, again, proceeds (proceeds, as Crutchfield breaks it down, is all Greek) from the Greek root pro.
So, that said, here is a word root worksheet on the Greek word root pro for this week’s Text. In addition, to complement the word root worksheet, here are three context clues worksheets on the verb proceed, the noun procedure, and the noun protagonist.
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By high school, students should understand the difference between poetry and prose. Here is a context clues on the noun prose that might guide your students toward understanding the distinction.
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Maybe you can use this context clue on the verb pursue which is used mostly transitively, but also has a relatively narrow intransitive use–i.e. “to go in pursuit.”
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Of all the units on using the parts of speech I’ve built, the fifth, on pronouns, is the longest and most involved of the whole yearlong course of study. As both an undergraduate and a graduate student, I worked in college writing centers. The two most common writing errors that impelled professors to send students to the writing center were pronoun-antecedent agreement errors and subject-verb agreement faults. Consequently, I have taken particular pains in building training around these two writing issues into the worksheets in my pronoun and verb units.
This week’s Text is a complete introductory lesson plan on the personal pronoun. This lesson begins, depending on how you use it, and with which population, with an Everyday Edit worksheet on Pocahontas (and, incidentally, if you like Everyday Edits, the good people at Education World very generously give them away; if you click that hyperlink, it will take you to the page where they keep the answer keys). If the lesson runs into a second day, then here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on satire that should serve well as your second do-now exercise. The center of this lesson is this scaffolded worksheet on using the personal pronouns in all three cases. Students will very likely benefit from using this learning support on pronouns and case. Finally, to help you guide your students through this lesson, here is the teacher’s copy of the worksheet.
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