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The Catbird Seat

Post-Reading, Top-Ranked Words Quiz

The Catbird Seat
(The New Yorker 11/14/1942)
James Thurber
Vocabulary in Context

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This quiz asks students to use sentence context to choose each word's meaning. It reinforces vocabulary as students encounter it while reading: in context, not as isolated definitions.

Top-ranked words are selected for text frequency, grade-level challenge, academic usefulness, and importance to understanding the text. Hand-edited texts can better account for importance to comprehension and especially memorable or meaningful passages.

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The Catbird Seat (The New Yorker 11/14/1942) James Thurber Vocabulary in Context

The Catbird Seat
(The New Yorker 11/14/1942)
James Thurber
Vocabulary in Context