You will learn how to use context (e.g., cause and effect or compare and contrast organizational text structures) to determine or clarify the meaning of unfamiliar or multiple-meaning words.

You will learn how to determine or clarify the meaning of words using context within a sentence and in larger sections of text.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a instructional activity in which students learn to use context clues in surrounding sentences to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. The instructional activity utilizes the book The...

Some questions ask you to identify which scenario matches the principle in a passage. This type of question asks you to apply a principle or idea presented in the passage to a new context presented in the choices.

A teaching resource with lesson plans, handouts, and three videos demonstrating how to teach appositives with explicit instruction, systematic instruction, practice and feedback.

A teaching resource with lesson plans, handouts, and four videos demonstrating how to teacher sentence structure through mentor sentences.

Use these online resources from the "Norton Anthology of English Literature" to provide both depth and breadth to your understanding of the poem "Beowulf," whether you are a student reading it for the first time or a teacher preparing to...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which learners learn to use a glossary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of an Emperor Penguin by Robin Johnson and Bobbie Kalman and...

This lesson offers a list of 17 downloadable tasks for high school algebra students to practice interpreting expressions that represent a quantity in terms of its context. Interpret parts of an expression, such as terms, factors, and...

In this third module of a course on Digital Photography, students learn about subjects and context, portraits in photography, and studying landscapes. Includes embedded links to external resources, learning exercises, and a glossary of...

In this Boundless Communication presentation, students will learn about contexts to consider when preparing a speech including physical, the psychology of audience, audience opinion of you and topic, and audience knowledge of the topic.

This unit plan can be used as a whole, or any of its three parts. Plenty of resources for the context of the novel, and the literary concepts of realism and regionalism are provided.

Students write and digitally publish a weekly newsletter using Google Docs. The content will be a synthesis of interesting issues from their class as well as some outside news and issues which directly impact students. The target...

A collection of differentiated reading activities are provided in this collection. Worksheets for the following reading topics are included: climax, story structure, elements of a story; fact and opinion; summarizing, narrative sequence;...

In this lesson, students will receive support and prompting as they listen to informational text and then determine the meaning of one of the words in context.

In this lesson plan, students will consider "Critical Ways of Seeing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in Context." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.

Booker T. Washington made a consequential speech in Atlanta in 1895, known now as the Atlanta Compromise. Read about the speech, the consessions Washington felt African-Americans needed to make, and the context in which the speech was...

This 2008 brief discusses how RTI can be adapted for English Language Learners (ELL). It provides an initial framework in the use of RTI that considers students' life experiences, including their language proficiencies in their first and...

This literature review provides a brief history of curriculum-based measurement (CBM), clarifying its relationship to curriculum-based assessment, a summary of the primary features of CBM, and a rationale for its design. Extensions of...

A look at the history of still-life painting through a printable catalog of multiple example works of art. Images are accompanied by descriptions and detailed examinations of their elements, meanings, and context.

A lesson plan where students will interpret the trigonometric functions in terms of the unit circle, graph a sinusoidal function, and use a sinusoidal function to make interpretations in a modeling context.

The text of Act V of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, accompanied by audio narration. Be sure to advance to subsequent (or to other acts of the play) using the buttons at the top. Includes audio narration, performance clips, discussion...

Guide to Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies provides historical context, author biography, questions, and a collection of resources for teachers, including a ten-day lesson schedule, project ideas, and essay topics. A radio...

Contains plans for one 60-minute lesson that teaches about a reading strategy called Character Perspective Charting. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains links to PDF handouts and links to...