Here is a lesson plan on memory with its work, to wit this short reading and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet.
If you want them, here are slightly longer versions of these documents.
If you find typos in these documents, 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.
OK, before I go out for a walk on this beautiful early spring afternoon, here is a lesson plan on the Greek word root bio, which means life. I open this lesson with this context clues worksheet on the adjective vital, which hints for students at the meaning of word root at the base of of this lesson. Finally, here is the worksheet that is the primary work of this lesson.
I’ll assume, particularly of you science teachers, that I need not belabor the point of this root’s productivity in English, or its place at the base of so many words related to the life sciences.
If you find typos in these documents, 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.
Here is a lesson plan on nouns as direct objects of verbs in clauses and sentences. I open this lesson with this worksheet on the homophones compliment and complement as both nouns and verbs. Nota bene that many grammar manuals use complement as a noun to designate the direct object of a verb, so I want students to recognize it if they encounter it in such a book. Finally, here is the scaffolded worksheet that is at the center of this lesson.
If you find typos in these documents, 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.
Here is yet Crime and Puzzlement lesson plan, this one on “A Comedy of Errors.” I open this lesson, in order to get students settled after a class transition, with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the expression “Touch and Go.” Here is the scan of the illustrations and questions needed to conduct the investigation–and here is the typescript of the answer key.
If you find typos in these documents, 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.
OK, I need to go to the laundromat at some point today, but first I’ll post this lesson plan on nouns as the subjects of sentences. I open this lesson with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on subject as a grammatical term. Finally, here is the scaffolded worksheet at the center of this lesson.
If you find typos in these documents, 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.
I was all but certain that I had previously posted this lesson plan on the timeline of global history, but I can’t find it anywhere on Mark’s Text Terminal. So, here is a context clues worksheet on the noun chronology with which I open this lesson. Here is the reading, which is really a list of significant dates in world history; here also are the questions to answer in worksheet form. Finally, here are is the teacher’s copy of the worksheet, i.e. the answers.
If you find typos in these documents, 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.
Here is a lesson plan on Aesop’s Fable “The Mischievous Dog.” Here also is a worksheet with the fable itself and some comprehension questions. These lessons, which I had just begun to develop when I left my final job in public education, have a lot of room for amplification, and therefore improvement.
If you find typos in these documents, 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.
Here is a lesson plan on the Crime and Puzzlement case “Casey at the Plate.”
I open this investigation with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept of a “significant other” as a do-now exercise. Here is a scan of the illustrations and questions that drive the case; finally, here is the typescript of the answer key.
If you find typos in these documents, 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.
Here is a complete lesson plan on the Greek word root biblio-, which means, simply, book. This is a very productive root in English (think Bible, among other words). If you are an English or Social Studies teacher, chances are you’ve asked your students to produce a (maybe even an annotated one) bibliography–i.e. some writing, in list form, about books
I open this lesson with this context clues worksheet on the noun novel as a way of hinting to students where this lesson is going. Finally, here is the worksheet that is the basis of the learning for this lesson.
If you find typos in these documents, 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 this morning, here is a lesson plan on the Crime and Puzzlement case “Of Ghouls and Goblins.”
I open this lesson with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept of the role model. Finally, to execute this lesson, you’ll need the PDF of the illustration and questions and the typescript of the answer key.
If you find typos in these documents, 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.
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