Category Archives: Worksheets

Classroom documents for student use. Most are structured and scaffolded, and most are pitched at a fundamental level in terms of the questions they ask and the work and understandings they require of students.

Idealism

Posted on July 21, 2020 | Leave a comment

I prepared this reading on philosophical idealism and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet  for one student. I used it once (so did he, then moved on to philosophical materialism), then never thought about it again until I found it just now in the back reaches of my warehouse. I doubt readers of this blog will find further use for it either, but who knows? Since I have metaphorical acres (gigabytes, to the literal-minded) of storage space on this website, I put it out on offer.

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Inculcate (vt)

Posted on July 21, 2020 | Leave a comment

It’s Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day, so, accordingly, here is a context clues worksheet on the verb inculcate. N.B. that it is only used transitively. It’s clearly a word students and teachers ought to know; for some reason, I had some difficulty writing context clues for it. Anyway, as always, this document is in Microsoft Word, so you can alter it to suit the needs of your classroom.

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World War I

Posted on July 20, 2020 | Leave a comment

Last but not least this morning, here is a reading on World War I along with its vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. This is a good general introduction to the Great War.

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Word Root Exercise: Sect

Posted on July 20, 2020 | Leave a comment

Alright then, as the great thespian and pet detective Ace Ventura would say, here is a worksheet on the Latin word root sect. It means, as you will quickly see, to cut. You’ll also see that it is a productive root in English, particularly for words in the sciences. So the next time your students are required to dissect something, they will know something about the family of words that sprouts from this root.

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A Lesson Plan on the Fastest Animals on Earth from The Order of Things

Posted on July 20, 2020 | Leave a comment

Here is another reading and analysis lesson from Barbara Ann Kipfer’s The Order of Things, this one on the fastest animals on this planet. You’ll need this list and comprehension questions to work kids through this lesson.

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Derelict (adj)

Posted on July 20, 2020 | Leave a comment

It’s the Word of the Day at Merriam-Webster today, so here is a context clues worksheet on the adjective derelict. As an adjective, it means “abandoned by the owner or occupant.”

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Appearance and Reality

Posted on July 18, 2020 | Leave a comment

Last but not least on this hot Saturday afternoon, here is another one-off that I wrote in response to the request of one student, then never used again. Maybe you have a philosophically-minded student whom this reading on appearance and reality and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet might interest.

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Adhere (vi/vt)

Posted on July 18, 2020 | Leave a comment

If you can use it, here is a context clues worksheet on the verb adhere. It’s used both intransitively and transitively. It seems like a word students ought to know by the time they walk the stage at their graduation.

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Cultural Literacy: Munich Pact

Posted on July 18, 2020 | Leave a comment

Several years ago, during a round of professional development at the school in which I was serving, a group of social studies teachers reviewed the results of our students’ performance on the New York State Global Studies and Geography Regents Examination. They found a high incidence of error on questions related to Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of Adolf Hitler in 1938. I took that as my cue to develop materials to address this issue–the first document was this context clues worksheet on the transitive verb appease.

This Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Munich Pact, which is a short and general introduction to Chamberlain’s pandering to Hitler may also be useful in ensuring students understand this key moment in global history.

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Mien (n)

Posted on July 17, 2020 | Leave a comment

OK, last but not least this afternoon, let’s deal with Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day for today by way of this context clues worksheet on the noun mien. It means “air or bearing esp. as expressive of attitude or personality.” Not a word students necessarily need to know, but a nifty noun I’ve always liked, and certainly a nice synonym of demeanor, appearance, or the polysemous aspect.

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