Monthly Archives: September 2025

While I rather doubt that most schools at any level in the United States concern themselves with the nation of Ecuador (where I traveled extensively 45 years ago). Nonetheless, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Ecuador. This is a full-page worksheet with a reading of three sentences and seven comprehension questions. A good literacy exercise for emergent and struggling readers.

If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

While I think their role in Hispanic history is one of pillage, murder, and disgrace, here, nonetheless, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the conquistadores. They are–as below–in Diego Rivera’s mural on the history of Mexico. I hope that’s enough said in justification of this document’s presence here. Whatever the case, this is a half-page worksheet with a reading of of one sentence and one comprehension question.

In other words, perhaps all one needs to know about them.

If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.

Following the post below on the nation of Colombia, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Christopher Columbus, the country’s namesake. This is a full-page worksheet with a reading of four sentences and five comprehension question. You might want to take a look at the first and last sentences, which are long, heavily punctuated compounds. If you students are up to it, I would leave them be. But the lists, with all their clauses, might be a bit too much for emergent or struggling readers.

If you find typos in this document, I would appreciate a notification. And, as always, if you find this material useful in your practice, I would be grateful to hear what you think of it. I seek your peer review.