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.

Concede (vi/vt)

I could not imagine that students wouldn’t need to know the word before they left high school, which is why I wrote this context clues worksheet on the verb concede. It’s used both intransitively and transitively.

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: Ergo

OK, here’s a worksheet the Greek word root erg/o. It means work. You’ll find it at the base of technical words like ergonomic.

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.

Aesop’s Fables: “The Hare and the Tortoise”

Last week I started working on a unit on Aesop’s fables for some of the younger learners I currently serve. So here, hot off the press, is a lesson plan on the fable “The Hare and the Tortoise” along with the reading and worksheet that constitutes the work of the lesson.

I figured it wasn’t a bad idea to start with one of the chestnuts.

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.

Everyday Edit: Jesse Owens

Alright, I’ll wrap up today with this Everyday Edit worksheet on Olympic legend Jesse Owens. If you like this worksheet, or the many others of them I’ve posted in observance of Black History Month 2020, you should click on over to Education world, where you’ll find a yearlong supply of Everyday Edits available…for free!

You will find typos in this document: that’s the point! Be sure your students catch–and correct–them.

Cultural Literacy: Richard Wright

Moving right along on this cold and rainy day, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Richard Wright. I assume I needn’t belabor his importance in American letters in the twentieth century.

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.

Common Errors in English Usage: Adopted and Adoptive

Here is an English usage worksheet on the adjectives adopted and adoptive and differentiating their use.

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.

The Milgram Studies: Lessons in Obedience

While I have found Stanley Milgram’s studies on obedience to authority fascinating (and the “lost letter experiment” is also interesting), I do understand that it isn’t exactly high school material. That said, I did, in 17 years of teaching now, have one kid ask about Milgram. Furthermore, I am aware that many of Milgram’s contemporaries and colleagues expressed serious ethical qualms about the methods Milgram used.

Nonetheless, here is a short reading on Dr. Milgram’s study along with its vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet.

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.

Combatant (n)

Because it comes up consistently in social studies classes, I wrote this context clues worksheet on the noun combatant to help students master the meaning and use of this commonly used noun. This is a particularly good–and necessary–word for kids in social studies classes to know.

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.

Independent Practice: The Columbian Exchange

On a rainy Monday morning, here is an independent practice worksheet on the Columbian Exchange.

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: Kwanzaa

Alright, it’s soon time for me to leave. Here is an Everyday Edit worksheet on Kwanzaa. If you like using Everyday Edits in your classroom then you are in luck: Education World will give you a yearlong supply of them on a broad range of topics.

If you find typos in this document, fix them! It’s an Everyday Edit!