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University of Victoria (Canada)

Uvcs: Critical Reading Exercise

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students read quotations from different "interest groups" or "lobbies" in this exercise and then perform a multiple-choice test to evaluate the credibility of each lobby group.
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Handout
Get It Write

Get It Write: Using the Verb "Include" to Preface a List

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this tutorial to learn when to use "include" and when to use a form of the verb "to be" when writing a list. A brief quiz checks your understanding.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Context Clues and Analogies (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on using a combination of reference materials and analyzing context clues and analogies to improve your knowledge of new words.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Greek and Latin Affixes (English Iii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson. You will be introduced to a number of common affixes and roots; play games to practice matching affixes to their meanings; read a passage and use your...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Applying Word Strategies: Multiple Choice Review: Practice 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Lessons on roots and affixes, denotation and connotation, context clues, origins and meanings of foreign words, cognates, and reference materials help determine word meanings. These lessons told you HOW to use these word discovery tools....
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Context Clues and Analogies (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on strategies for using context clues and analogies to determine the meaning of words, sentences, and paragraphs.
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Handout
Other

The Phrase Finder: Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
"A professional writers' resource from The Phrase Finder for generating ideas for headlines, advertising copy, song lyrics, etc." Just type your word and the phrase finder will find a phrase to match it. L.9-10.4c References, L.9-10.4d...
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Professional Doc
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Use Context Clues to Decipher Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This reading resource discusses the strategy of using context clues to decipher new words. A list of guiding questions is provided to help students as they use context clues to understand new words.
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Website
Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Scrabble Word Finder

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article discusses using a Scrabble Word Finder. It focuses on the Your Dictionary Word Finder including explaining ways to use it and what is available through it.
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Study Guide
College Claparede (Switzerland)

English Exercises Online: Sat Vocabulary Vi

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Matching exercise including 30 popular vocabulary words on the SAT.
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Study Guide
College Claparede (Switzerland)

English Exercises Online: Sat Vocabulary V

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Matching exercise including 30 popular vocabulary words on the SAT.
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Study Guide
College Claparede (Switzerland)

English Exercises Online: Sat Vocabulary Iv

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Matching exercise including 30 popular vocabulary words on the SAT.
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Study Guide
College Claparede (Switzerland)

English Exercises Online: Sat Vocabulary Iii

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Matching exercise including 30 popular vocabulary words on the SAT.
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Study Guide
College Claparede (Switzerland)

English Exercises Online: Sat Vocabulary Ii

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Matching exercise including 30 popular vocabulary words on the SAT.
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Study Guide
College Claparede (Switzerland)

English Exercises Online: Sat Vocabulary

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Matching exercise including 30 popular vocabulary words on the SAT.
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Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Clarifying Meaning Quick Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In a given text, words and phrases do not appear in isolation but are embedded in the context of a narrative, an argument, an explanation, and so on. Accordingly, clarifying meaning questions test your ability to identify contextually...
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Handout
Other

Weber State University: Misused Words and Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A fun look at the wrong way to use the English language; includes many examples.
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Article
Other

How the Language Really Works: Restatement

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Choosing when to read for simple comprehension is the focus of this brief article.
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Article
Other

Critical Reading: How the Language Really Works: Interpretation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this brief article, the author considers the ways that readers interpret text. An interesting comparison between reading and viewing a painting is worth a look.
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PPT
Other

Prezi: Explicit v. Implicit Meaning

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Slideshow investigates how to determine what the text is saying v. what it means.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Comprehension Context Clues

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses context clues and how students can use them to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.
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Handout
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Common Words With Multiple Meanings

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces common words with multiple meanings.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Example Context Clues

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces example context clues. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content. L.11-12.4a Words/Context
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Identifying Connected Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson explains how to identify connected words when determining the meaning of unknown vocabulary. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.