Vocabulary Worksheets

All teaching materials listed below have been reviewed and approved for the site, and have been assigned a carefully estimated CLB difficulty level. By recalling the CLB level of materials that you have already found suitable for your students, you can return to the site for other materials at the same CLB level with confidence that they should be appropriate, too.

Materials estimated to be within the CLB 1-3 range:

• Do a brief reading; work with furniture vocabulary. (CLB 2)
• Do a brief reading; work on occupations vocabulary. (CLB 2)
• Do a brief reading; work on How do you feel? vocabulary. (CLB 2)

• Do a word-search puzzle (has key). (CLB 3)

Materials estimated to be within the CLB 4-6 range:

• Worksheet for bases and affixes. (CLB 24):
• Complete real-life recipes using food-related vocabulary. (CLB 4):

• Work with affixes and parts of speech. (CLB 5):
• Choose the correct part of speech to use in a sentence. (CLB 4-5):
• Work with common body-related idioms. (CLB 5):
• Context clues: introduction. (CLB 5):
• Multiple-choice exercise for context clues. (CLB 5):
• Guess meanings from context clues that become progressively clearer. (CLB 5):
• Practice guessing from cause-and-effect context clues. (CLB 5):
• Practice guessing from definition-type context clues. (CLB 5):
• Practice separating words' multiple meanings (1). (CLB 5-6):
• Practice separating words' multiple meanings (2). (CLB 5-6):
• High Value Vocabulary: Adjectives (1). (CLB 5):
• High Value Vocabulary: Adjectives (2). (CLB 5):
• High Value Vocabulary: Adjectives (3). (CLB 5):

• Common Greek and Latin roots: list, meanings and examples. (CLB 6):
• Exercise with figurative language. (CLB 6):

Materials estimated to be at CLB 7 or higher:

Hand-out with explanations/examples of hedges. (CLB 8):

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