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: Wounded Knee

Here is a Cultural Literacy exercise on Wounded Knee and the tragic events that occurred there. It is short, so it serves only as an introduction to the subject, which absolutely warrants greater scrutiny and analysis.

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Independent Practice: Charlemagne

At the start of another work week, here is an independent practice worksheet on Charlemagne. I’m hard pressed to imagine he isn’t a part of most if not all world history or global studies (or whatever your district of school calls this area of inquiry.

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Transcontinental Railroad

If you teach United States History, this reading on the transcontinental railroad and its attendant comprehension worksheet might be something you could assign to struggling readers and English Language Learners.

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.

Pore (n/v), Poor (adj), and Pour (v)

On a rainy Saturday morning (aside: should it be pouring rain in New England on January 5th? Shouldn’t this be snow?), Mark’s Text Terminal is humming right along. Here are five worksheets on the homophones pore, poor, and pour. A few notes about these words: pore as a verb is apparently only used intransitively, and in its most common application in English is used with the adverb over; as a verb, pour can be used both intransitively and transitively. While these worksheets don’t address it, pour can also be used as a noun, and can mean the action of pouring,  and instance of pouring or an amount poured, and a heavy fall of rain: DOWNPOUR.

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.

Abominable (adj)

It was Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day yesterday, so here today is a context clues worksheet on the adjective abominable. It strikes me as a good word to use to demonstrate English morphology by pointing out to students its forms as a noun (abomination), a verb (abominate) and an adverb (abominably).

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.

Cultural Literacy: Acronym

I’m not sure is there is much of a demand for it, but if there is, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet the concept and practical application of the acronym.

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The Weekly Text, January 4, 2019: A Lesson Plan on the Latin Word Root Bell

The first Text for the New Year is this complete lesson plan on the latin word root bell-. It means war. Here is the context clues worksheet on the noun conflict with which I begin this lesson. Finally, this vocabulary-building worksheet on this root is the mainstay of this lesson.

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The Peace of Westphalia

While I’m not sure why I prepared it in the first place–this isn’t something even touched upon, let alone covered in depth, in the global studies classes I co-taught in New York City–here in any case are a reading on the Peace of Westphalia and the comprehension worksheet that accompanies it.

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Garment (n)

It’s not a word one hears used much anymore–although New Yorkers still call part of Manhattan the Garment District–but here, nonetheless, is a context clues worksheet on the noun garment.

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Independent Practice: Chandragupta Maurya

OK, here is an independent practice worksheet on Chandragupta Maurya. He was, as you probably know (but your students do not), the founder of the Mauryan Empire.

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.