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.

The Weekly Text, June 22, 2018: A Lesson Plan on Using Adverbs to Modify Verbs

Today’s Text is a complete lesson plan on using adverbs to modify adverbs. I start this lesson with this short exercise on the idiom “money burning a hole in one’s pocket.” Should this lesson go into a second day, here is a second short exercise, this one a on the homophones pore, poor, and pour. The mainstay of this lesson is this scaffolded worksheet on using adverbs to modify adverbs. Depending on the students you’re serving, they may need this learning support, which is a word bank to use with the cloze exercises on the worksheet. Finally, here is the teacher’s copy-answer key of the worksheet.

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Omen (n)

Over the years, I’ve found that I can take little for granted in terms of the prior knowledge that my students possess, a fact that moved me to write this context clues worksheet on the noun omen.

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Cultural Literacy: Meter

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on poetic meter that might be useful if you’re teaching students poetry.

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Inscrutable (adj)

You might find this context clues worksheet on the adjective inscrutable useful. It’s a good word to know when discussing the motivations of people, particularly characters in literature.

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: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby (the appeal of which is squandered on this reader) remains a staple in high school English classes, so this short reading and comprehension exercise might serve well to introduce the book’s author.

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.

Qualm (n)

It is a gorgeous day in Manhattan, so this context clues worksheet on the noun qualm in no way reflects my state of mind. As soon as I can get out of this grim, windowless building (about which I do have a serious qualm or two), I’m going for a walk through Hudson River Park.

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.

Coarse (adj) and Course (n)

Here are five homophone worksheets on the adjective coarse and the noun course that may well have a place in your classroom.

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Spurn (v)

You might be able to use, if you think your students should know this word (I think mine should, which is why I wrote it) this context clues worksheet on the verb spurn.

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: Napoleon Bonaparte

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Napoleon Bonaparte if you need something to introduce the little Corsican quickly.

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, June 15, 2018: Two Context Clues Worksheets on the Noun Prologue and Epilogue

This week’s Text is a quick one, after a week of testing. Here are two context clues worksheets on the nouns prologue and epilogue.

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.