Vocabulary Context Clues

The teacher anticipated the first day of school with much longing.

• looked forward to
• dreaded
• regretted

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

The girl's hypothesis  was that someone was watching her, but she couldn't prove it yet.

• conclusion
• working theory
• mystery

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Her mother said: "I forbid you to got the store- it is raining outside"

• dread
• hope
• not allow

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

The glass plate shattered when it hit the floor and broke into a thousand pieces.

• bounced
• break into pieces
• made a loud noise

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The striations in the rock showed that water used to flow along the channels in the rock.

• stripes
• circles
• holes

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

"[My parents] took me to the Toronto Sick Children's Hospital,"Normandin said. "I don't remember much else. I remember being in an isolation ward looking out the window at my father."

• an award for being lonely
• room or section in a hospital
• a mental hospital

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

You might not have heard of polio before. That's because 50 yearsago, on April 12, 1955, the U.S. government approved the use of a vaccine that stopped people from getting the disease. Invented byJonas Salk, the vaccine all but eradicated polio worldwide.

• a cure for a disease
• an infectious virus
• increase immunity to a particular disease

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

You might not have heard of polio before. That's because 50 years ago, on April 12, 1955, the U.S. government approved the use of a vaccine that stopped people from getting the disease. Invented by Jonas Salk, the vaccine all but eradicated polio worldwide.

• got rid of
• an era of dictation
• to produce in large amounts

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A