Category Archives: Independent Practice

In 1954, it was the bloody nadir for French forces in Vietnam, something this Cultural Literacy worksheet on Dienbienphu makes sure to mention. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of two simple sentences, followed by three comprehension questions.

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.

Moving right along, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Korean War. This full-page document contains a reading of nine sentences–and the seventh of them is a compound separated by a semicolon, which may require editing for emergent and struggling readers–followed by eight comprehension questions. In other words, unlike a lot of the half-page, do-now length Cultural Literacy worksheets you’ll find on this blog, this document could be the mainstay of a lesson introducing a unit on the Korean War.

In any event, like most of what you’ll find on Mark’s Text Terminal, this is a Microsoft Word document that you can alter to suit the needs of your students.

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.