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  • ESL, LEP and ELL especially benefit from the AUDIO passages. Stories emphasize grade level word content and subject specific vocabulary.
  • 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 11: Beginner CED, CEPT, CUR Context Story -- myVocabulary.com

    The following story will further clarify the meanings of the vocabulary words and aid in their pronuncation in Word Root #11 Beginner. Use the back arrow on your browser to return to the page of all puzzles.
    Do you have an ANCESTOR who had a SUCCESSION of UNSUCCESSFUL ventures? Byron Gwyer, my great-uncle, was an EXCEPTIONAL man of high PRINCIPLES who enjoyed a MANICURE every week. He showed CURIOSITY at an early age. He never worried about financial SECURITY. Out of NECESSITY he would ANTICIPATE CONCURRENT trends. When he walked down the CORRIDOR of his office, co-workers recognized he had an ACCURATE RECIPE for success in life.
    Beginner Words for roots CED, CEPT and CUR:
    ACCURATE, ANCESTOR, ANTICIPATE, CURIOSITY, EXCEPTIONAL, MANICURE, NECESSITY, PRINCIPLE, RECIPE, SECURITY, SUCCESSION, UNSUCCESSFUL
     

    2) Word Roots 11 CED, CEPT, CUR Advanced Context Story -- myVocabulary.com

    The following story will further clarify the meanings of the vocabulary words and aid in their pronuncation in Word Root #11 Advanced. Use the back arrow on your browser to return to the page of all puzzles.
    The INCEPTION of the new law changed everything! It was an INCURSION into the status quo. The ANTECEDENT events established a PRECEDENT forbidding a state to SECEDE. A PERCEPTIVE judge hoped that he could EMANCIPATE the ties of the regulations. He certainly did CONCUR, even after a CURSORY examination, that the former ruling was a PRECURSOR to his decision. However, the INCESSANT demands by politicians for reform made him SUSCEPTIBLE to wanting a change, too.
    Advanced words for #11 CED, CEPT and CUR roots:
    ANTECEDENT, CONCUR, CURSORY, EMANCIPATE, INCESSANT, INCEPTION, INCURSION, PERCEPTIVE, PRECEDENT, PRECURSOR, SECEDE, SUSCEPTIBLE