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  • Common Core alignment to a Reading Passage is to 3 key phrases: "Grade Level", "Particular Topic" and "Grade-Relevant Text or Subject Area". CCSS Alignment Strand for Specific Grades:
    Grade Level: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4, 3.4, 4.4, 5.4, 6.4, 7.4, 8.4, 9-10.4, 11-12.4
    Particular Topic: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 4.6. 5.6, 6.6, 7.6, 8.6, 9-10.6, 11-12.6
    Grade & Subject-Relevant Text: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers:
    (Reading: Informational Text) RI.2.4, RI.3.4, RI.4.4. RI.5.4, RI.6.4, RI.7.4, RI.8.4, RI.9-10.4, RI.11-12.4
    (Reading: Literature) RL.2.4, RL.3.4, RL.4.4. RL.5.4, RL.6.4, RL.7.4, RL.8.4, RL.9-10.4, RL.11-12.4
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    1) Word Roots 10: JECT, PEND, LECT Intermediate Context Story -- myVocabulary.com

    The following story will further clarify the meanings of the vocabulary words and aid in their pronuncation in Word Root #10 Intermediate. Use the back arrow on your browser to return to the page of all puzzles.
    During the Enlightenment one OBJECTIVE of the INTELLIGENSIA was to DILIGENTLY assemble in a salon. Often a clock with a PENDULUM would strike in an ADJACENT room. One attendee wore a PENDANT, a LEGACY from her dear grand-mama. A poet with ILLEGIBLE writing titled his letters at a PERPENDICULAR angle. A music room was an APPENDAGE of the main salon. The intellectuals made a PROJECTION that these soirees would be revolutionary. The CONJECTURE from the masses was that they would not want to attend any of these types of gatherings.
    Intermediate words for JECT, PEND and LECT roots:
    ADJACENT, APPENDAGE, CONJECTURE, DILIGENTLY, ILLEGIBLE, INTELLIGENTSIA, LEGACY, OBJECTIVE, PENDANT, PENDULUM, PERPENDICULAR, PROJECTION