Chaucer Vocabulary Study

Students read an excerpt from the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales and identify the meaning of four bolded Middle English words using context clues. In a chart, they record context clues, their best guess meaning, and a modern equivalent. This activity teaches students how to work with historical language and infer meaning through nearby descriptive phrases. It strengthens vocabulary strategies and increases comfort with older forms of English. The worksheet supports language decoding, comprehension, and linguistic comparison.

Curriculum Matched Skills

English Language Arts – Vocabulary Using Context Clues

English Language Arts – Understanding Historical Language

English Language Arts – Word Meaning Interpretation

English Language Arts – Decoding Middle English

English Language Arts – Textual Evidence for Word Meaning

This worksheet is part of our Classic Literature Worksheets collection.