Tag Archives: diction/grammar/style/usage

Prude (n)

Recently, I posted a context clues worksheet on the adjective prudent. I put the cart before the horse in writing that, because I really needed an exercise on the noun prude to attend a short English lesson I wrote. If you need a context clues worksheet on this word, just click the hypertext above.

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The Weekly Text, January 20, 2017: A Set of Documents on Teaching the Latin Word Root Uni

This week’s text is a worksheet on the Latin word root uni, which means, of course, one. To accompany it, and provide a do-now exercise or two, are a context clues worksheet on unite and another on labor union  Under our current circumstances, labor union might be a concept and word students should know.

That’s it for this week. I hope these worksheets are useful to you.

If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

Prudent (adj)

Here’s a context clues worksheet on the adjective prudent. I wrote it to attend something or other; in any case, it’s a word highschoolers ought to know.

If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

Font (n)

I can’t remember why I wrote this context clues worksheet on the noun font, but here it is if you can use it.

If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

Discernment (n)

Last week I published a context clue on the verb discern here; here is a context clues worksheet on the noun discernment to accompany it.

If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

The Weekly Text, January 13, 2017: An Introductory Lesson on Adverbs

It’s Friday the thirteenth, and time for another Weekly Text. I’ve begun revising my unit on adverbs, so this week, I offer you a lesson plan that introduces students to adverbs.

Like most if not all of the lessons I post here, I’ve prepared this one to take place over two days, given the contingencies of attention issues, disruptive behavior, and the like. So, there are two do-now exercises to open this lesson: the first is this do-now Cultural Literacy Worksheet on run-on sentences; the second is a context clues worksheet on the adjective superlative. (It’s worth mentioning in passing that this word is also used to describe the utmost degree of adjectives; some time ago I posted the introductory lesson of my adjectives unit, and over time I’ll post the entire unit, one lesson of which covers the degrees–synthetic, comparative, and superlative–of adjectives, so this do-now exercise might also serve you well in that capacity.)

The mainstay of the lesson is a scaffolded worksheet on understanding adverbs and their use. I imagine you will find the teachers’copy/answer key for the worksheet.

That’s it until next week.

If you find typos in these documents, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

Envoy (n.)

Here, on a muggy and warm (49 degrees at 5:00 a.m.) Thursday morning in The Bronx, is a context clues worksheet on the noun envoy.

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Discern (vt./vi)

Here’s another context clues worksheet, this one on the verb discern.

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Impetus (n)

Here’s a context clues worksheet on the noun impetus, which is a word I think high school students ought to know by the time they graduate.

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Crucial (adj.)

Today I’m trying to clean up some folders and put up a few new posts, trying to catch up to my usual pace of work. Here’s a context clues worksheet on the adjective crucial. I hope it’s useful–it’s another commonly used word in English.

If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.