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.

Cultural Literacy: Saint George and the Dragon

Given the prevalence of its symbolism, particularly in Europe, I think this Cultural Literacy worksheet on Saint George and the Dragon ought to be able to find a home in most classrooms.

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.

Purview (n)

Friday afternoon, and it feels like summer in Western Massachusetts. If you think your students should know the word and concept, here is a context clues worksheet on the noun purview.

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, May 31, 2019, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2019 Week IV: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on Hindu Epics

Well, we’ve reached the end of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2019. I’d say May has passed quickly, but I suspect that for most classroom teachers like me, May is, to paraphrase T.S. Eliot, the cruelest month.

To ring out the month, here is a reading on the Hindu Epics the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, along with the vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet that attends it.

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: Chinese New Year

Here is an Everyday Edit on the Chinese New Year. If you like these exercises (in my experience, students enjoy them, and they can be a real confidence builder for struggling readers and writers), you can click through to Education World, whose authors generously offer a yearlong supply of them.

My usual entreaty about peer review and typo alerts don’t apply here: I didn’t write this, and the typos in the worksheet are for your students to note and correct.

Cultural Literacy: Kemal Ataturk

This Cultural Literacy worksheet on Kemal Ataturk is a nice introduction to the concept of modernising traditional societies, if teaching that sort of thing is in your wheelhouse.

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: Sumer II

Here is the second of two (I posted the first two days ago, so it is just below this one) independent practice worksheets on Sumer.

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: Sumer I

Today begins the final week of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2019. In observation of this themed history month, Mark’s Text Terminal offers this independent practice worksheet on Sumer; it’s the first of two–the second one is just a couple of posts up the blog from this.

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, May 24, 2019, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2019 Week III: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on the Korean War

For week 4 of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2019, Mark’s Text Terminal offers this reading on the Korean War 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.

Independent Practice: Kublai Khan

OK, it’s Thursday morning again, so I anticipate rounding the day to Friday, which takes us into Memorial Day Weekend 2019. Maybe you can use this independent practice worksheet on Kublai Khan in your global studies class.

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: Chuseok: Korea’s “Thanksgiving”

Here’s an Everyday Edit worksheet on Chuseok-Korea’s “Thanksgiving.”  If you like using this worksheet, the good people at Education World have made a yearlong supply of them available for free.

And you will find typos on this worksheet because they were placed there purposely. The question is, will your students find them?