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.

A Lesson Plan on Intelligence

Here is a lesson plan on intelligence. You’ll need this short reading and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. If you’d like slightly longer versions of these documents, click here.

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.

A Worksheet on the Distributive Law of Multiplication

Here is a worksheet on the distributive law of multiplication with its answer key 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.

The Simpsons

It was the show that brought me back to television after swearing off the medium for over twenty years, so I tend to assume that this reading on “The Simpsons” and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension are high-interest materials. These days, I find, adolescents prefer the somewhat coarser, but often just as funny “Family Guy.”

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.

Two Worksheets, with Answer Keys, on the Associative Property of Addition

Here are two worksheets on the associative property of multiplication with their answer keys attached. When you click to download, you should have a single, four-page-long document. Any problems, please advise.

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.

Independent Practice: Valley of the Kings and Tutankhamen

It’s Friday, and we will release students early on account of winter weather today in this district. In other words, I’ll have a few minutes today to post some materials for Black History Month 2020.

So here is an independent practice worksheet on both Tutankhamen and the Valley of the Kings; the two short readings seemed to me to fit together naturally.

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 Weekly Text, February 7, 2020, Black History Month 2020 Week I: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on Alex Haley

OK, for week one of Black History Month 2020, here is a reading on Alex Haley along with its accompanying 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.

Cultural Literacy: Deep South

William Faulkner, Truman Capote, Harper Lee and Flannery O’Conner notwithstanding, I confess to this prejudice: I have always thought of the Deep South, from the earliest age I was able to understand it as a place and a culture, as a deeply backward place. It wasn’t a coincidence that white nationalists chose Charlottesville, Virginia, as the place to hold their “Unite the Right” rally, nor is it a coincidence that the the Neo-Confederate movement finds adherents in this region of the United States.

I assume I needn’t belabor the the fact that Americans of African descent have suffered the worst oppression and indignity in the Deep South. For that reason, I include this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Deep South in this year’s observation of Black History Month. I think if we as a nation are to face our history without delusion, we have to admit that the mentality that used the color of a person’s skin to commodify him or her is alive and well in this country–especially in the Deep South.

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: Booker T Washington

Moving right along, here is an Everyday Edit worksheet on Booker T. Washington for Black History Month 2020. If you’d like more worksheets like this one, head on over to Education World, where the good people who operate give away a year’s supply of them.

You will find typos in this document–that’s the point of it. Copyedit and repair faults!

Coherent (adj)

Here is a context clues worksheet on the adjective coherent, which I think comes as close to inarguable as it gets when considering words students should know by the time they graduate high school: students really must know this word.

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.

Desert (n/vi/vt) and Dessert (n)

Here are five worksheets on the homophones desert (a noun and a verb, in the latter case used both intransitively and transitively) and dessert, which is only a noun. These are two very commonly confused words even though, when carefully and properly pronounced, they aren’t really homophones.

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.