Students read a paragraph about the Mississippi River and write down the main idea and supporting ideas.
Find the Main Idea: Three Reading Passages
Students read three different passages and choose the correct main idea for each.
Find the Meaning: JFK’s Inaugural Speech
In this worksheet, your student will determine the meaning of some phrases in President Kennedy’s Inaugural Speech.
Finding Meaning In Context
This worksheet uses a passage from “Jane Eyre” to develop your student’s skills with context clues.
Formal to Informal: Make the Change
The Declaration of Independence is ready for your student’s modern translation!
Gettysburg Address Context Clues
In this worksheet, your student will use context clues as a way to discover the meaning of words.
Great Expectations: Pip Meets a Criminal
Charles Dickens published Great Expectations in 1860. It is the story of Phillip Pirrip, called Pip, growing up from a young boy to a man. Students read a passage and answer related questions.
Halloween and Figurative Language Worksheet Activty
Help your students better understand figurative language with this classroom activity on similes and idioms. Students will practice interpreting different phrases, such as ‘web of lies’ and ‘ghosts of a chance’, with this printable worksheet.
Hamlet: Using Context for Word Meaning
Hamlet’s encounter with his father’s ghost is the scene for this context clue worksheet.
High School Spelling Words List – General Spelling Rules
Here is a general spelling rules handout for students
High School Spelling Words List Week 1 – Words Ending in -ant and -ent
Week one high school spelling list includes these 10 words: argument, convenient, equipment, excellent, excitement, experiment, permanent, pleasant, servant, temperament.
High School Spelling Words List Week 10 – Words Ending in -ant, -ent, -ence, -ance, -ary, and -ery
Week ten high school spelling list includes these ten words: appearance, attendance, cemetery, existence, experience, independence, parents, secretary, sentence, sergeant.
High School Spelling Words List Week 11 – Vowel Concerns: A
Spelling activities for the week ten high school spelling list contains these words: acquaint, embarrass, library, magazine, many, obstacle, preparation, separate, similar, village.
High School Spelling Words List Week 12 – Words Ending in -ous
Here are the spelling activities for high school list twelve: conscientious, conscious, continuous, courageous, courteous, fictitious, humorous, jealous, mischievous, nervous.
High School Spelling Words List Week 13 – Consonants: Double Trouble
The week thirteen spelling list focuses on consonants, including the words: across, challenge, control, discuss, happen, intelligent, interrupt, narrative, pretty, suppose.
High School Spelling Words List Week 14 – Homophones: Sounding the Same
The following words are found in week fourteen’s spelling list for high school students: its, it’s, lead, led, their there they’re, to, too, two.
High School Spelling Words List Week 15 – Words Ending in -ed or -ing
Week fifteen spelling list for high school students is comprised of these words: beginning, dropped, getting, grabbed, occurred, planned, referring, running, stopped, swimming.
High School Spelling Words List Week 16 – Vowels: Using AU/UA and IA/AI
Here are the words for the high school spelling list for week sixteen: again, associate, because, brilliant, captain, guarantee, guard, persuade, restaurant, usual.
High School Spelling Words List Week 17 – Words Ending in -ar, -or, and -er
The following words make up the high school spelling list for week seventeen: author, calendar, character, familiar, governor, grammar, particular, peculiar, soldier, sponsor.
High School Spelling Words List Week 18 – Consonants: More on Doubling
The high school spelling list for week eighteen consists of these words: accuse, address, aggression, approach, attitude, difficult, misspell, necessary, omitted, squirrel.