Common Core Language Arts Activities for Grade 10

Students in the tenth grade of the Common Core Language Arts program will be required to acquire the skills to:

• Decide or explain the definition of unfamiliar and various-meaning words and phrases from grades 9–10 reading and content, utilizing a variety of strategies.

• Utilize the surrounding information to infer the meaning of a word or phrase.

• Find the definition of words by examining their opposites in the given context.

• Utilize the surrounding information to determine the definition of a term

• Recognize and accurately apply variations in word forms that signal various meanings or grammatical functions (e.g., criticize, criticism, critical; explore, exploration).

• Look up general and specific resources such as dictionaries, glossaries, and thesauruses in both physical and digital formats to discover how to say a word or figure out its exact definition, type of word, or origins.

Use the exercises provided in this ebook to help your students improve these skills.