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.

Word Root Exercise: Psych/o

Posted on December 3, 2019 | Leave a comment

This worksheet on the Greek word root psych/o–which means mind, soul, and mental process–takes students through a series of words that grow from this very productive root in English.

Do I need to say that anyone considering a career in mental health services in particular, and healthcare in general, should know this root? They’ll  need it to understand fully the meanings of psychologist and psychiatrist.

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A Lesson Plan on Linking Verbs

Posted on December 3, 2019 | Leave a comment

Here is a complete lesson plan on linking verbs. Because sentences with predicate adjectives are one of the most commonly used structures in both English prose and speech, I teach them several times in the course of the parts of speech unit I wrote several years ago (and continue to revise).

Anyway, here is the Cultural Literacy worksheet on intransitive verbs with which I open this lesson after a class break. This scaffolded worksheet on linking verbs is at the center of this lesson. Finally, here is a learning support on the verb to be to help students conjugate this often confusing verb.

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Nikola Tesla

Posted on December 3, 2019 | Leave a comment

His name is now a corporate brand, so perhaps this reading on Nikola Tesla and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet will help students understand the significance of that fact–and learn something about the plot of the recent film The Current War.

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Frenzy (n)

Posted on December 3, 2019 | Leave a comment

Because it’s a word that well describes the snowfall here in Bennington, Vermont over the past forty hours or so. this context clues worksheet on the noun frenzy seems an appropriate choice to post this morning.

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Word Root Exercise: Pan, Panto

Posted on December 2, 2019 | Leave a comment

This worksheet on the Greek Word roots pan and panto–they mean all–guides students through an extremely productive root in English. You’ll find this root at the basis of words like panorama and pantheism–relatively commonly used words.

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A Lesson Plan on the Crime and Puzzlement Case “Boy Scout”

Posted on December 2, 2019 | Leave a comment

Moving right along, here is a complete lesson plan on the Crime and Puzzlement case “Boy Scout.”

I open this lesson, after the relative chaos of a class change, with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the American English idiom bone to pick. This PDF of the illustration and questions of the case is the centerpiece of the lesson. Finally, here is the typescript of the answer key to finish the lesson by solving the case.

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Red Auerbach

Posted on December 2, 2019 | Leave a comment

Ok, teachers in Boston and environs, if not the entire state of Massachussetts, I’m hard-pressed to imagine that this reading on legendary Celtics coach Red Auerbach and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet wouldn’t be of high interest in you educational marketplace, so to speak. I conducted a brisk trade in these documents when I taught in Springfield, Massachusetts, last year.

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Cultural Literacy: Bill Gates

Posted on December 2, 2019 | Leave a comment

Here, if anyone needs it, is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Bill Gates. Over the years, this has tended to be a relatively high-interest item, so I’ve tagged it as such.

But it isn’t as if this man languishes in obscurity. As a matter of fact, he is ubiquitous, and even (arguably) obnoxiously so.

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Forlorn (adj)

Posted on December 2, 2019 | Leave a comment

OK, it’s a snow day in my southwestern Vermont district, which is a perfect opportunity for me to feel useful by publishing some blog posts. Here is a context clues worksheet on the adjective forlorn.

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Word Root Exercise: Greg

Posted on November 27, 2019 | Leave a comment

Here is worksheet on the Latin root greg is the only thing I’ll post this week. It means flock, but if you look at the words in English that grow from it–e.g. congregate–you’ll see that the document is quite appropriate for the holiday season.

I’ll be back next week, however, with a round of new posts.

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