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.

Pray (vi/vt), Prey (n/vi)

Here are five worksheets on the homophones pray and prey. They are used, respectively, as a transitive and intransitive verb, and a noun and intransitive verb. These are two commonly used, and equally commonly confused words, in the English language.

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.

Kurt Godel

Here is a reading on Kurt Godel along with its attendant vocabulary building and comprehension worksheet. There is room in the document–and the latitude, as, like most other things on Mark’s Text Terminal, these are Word documents that can be edited for your students’ needs–to deal with some of the abstractions Godel’s work deals with.

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.

Cultural Literacy: J.R.R. Tolkien

On my way out the door on this pleasant afternoon, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on J.R.R. Tolkien if you have students interested in The Lord of the Rings trilogy in print or onscreen.

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.

Everyday Edit: Martha Washington

Here is an Everyday Edit worksheet on Martha Washington for Women’s History Month 2020. And if you want more of these, to give credit where it is always and abundantly due, the good people at Education World will supply you with a year’s worth of these documents.

And if you find typos on this document, they are there because they need to be fixed….

A Short Comprehension Worksheet on Gravity

OK, on my way out the door this afternoon, here is a short comprehension worksheet on gravity I wrote this morning. As its instructions indicate, it follows the “What Is Gravity ” page at the NASA Space Place Site.

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.

Plato

Finally this morning, here is a reading on Plato and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet if you teach him in the context of global studies, English language arts, or even a philosophy class. This is a short but solid general introduction to ancient Greek thought in general and Plato in particular.

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.

Despot (n)

At this moment in the political history of the world, I think it’s important that students get a look at this context clues worksheet on the noun despot.

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.

Word Root Exercise: Kilo-

Here is a word root worksheet on the Greek word root kilo, which means thousand. This turns up all over the place in English, particularly in metric measurements like kilometer and kiloton. I expect this is a word root students should know for work in the hard sciences–even in a high school classroom.

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.

Everyday Edit: Jacqueline Kennedy

Cleaning out the Women’s History Month warehouse, I came upon this Everyday Edit worksheet on Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. As always, and in the interest of giving credit where it is richly due, let me remind you that the good people at Education World give away a year’s supply of these documents, many of them on high interest topics.

Aesop’s Fables: “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”

Here is a lesson plan on Aesop’s fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” along with its reading and comprehension worksheet if you can use them.

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.