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.

Independent Practice Worksheet: Buddhism

Posted on May 3, 2018 | Leave a comment

Here, on a Thursday morning, is a short independent practice assignment on Buddhism. In other words, this is homework; I don’t use the word in my classroom because it is loaded. In any case, consistent with Alfie Kohn’s book The Homework Myth, which exercises a large influence on my thinking on this issue, I try to help students understand the difference between homework qua homework and independent practice, which calls upon them to practice that day’s classwork on their own.

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Cultural Literacy: Genghis Khan

Posted on May 2, 2018 | Leave a comment

As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, May 1st begins Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Initially, I was concerned that I lacked significant materials to observe the month properly; however, upon review of the Text Terminal Archives, I find that I have an abundance of materials to offer in observation of it.

So, let’s start with this Cultural Literacy Worksheet on Genghis Khan. As a college professor of mine once put it, he was an “industrious fellow.”

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A Short Exercise on the Greek Word Root Oste/o

Posted on May 1, 2018 | Leave a comment

This worksheet on the Greek word root oste/o–it means bone–is another of those Greek roots that produces a lot of words used in the health professions, e.g. osteopathy.

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Astute (adj)

Posted on April 30, 2018 | Leave a comment

Here is a context clues worksheet on the adjective astute. As it means “having or showing shrewdness and perspicacity” I think it’s a word students should know.

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The Weekly Text, April 27, 2018: A Lesson Plan on Using the Personal Pronoun in the Possessive Case

Posted on April 27, 2018 | Leave a comment

It’s Friday again, so it’s time for another Weekly Text.  This week I offer a complete lesson plan on using the personal pronoun in the possessive case. I begin this lesson with this short exercise on the homophones to, too, and two; in the event the lesson runs into a second day, I keep this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the rhetorical question in reserve. The mainstay of this lesson is this structured, scaffolded worksheet on using the personal pronoun in the possessive case. Here, also, is the teacher’s copy of the worksheet to help you get through the lesson. Finally, here is a learning support on pronouns and case that both your and your students might find useful for this lesson–and elsewhere.

That’s it. It finally feels like spring here, so it’s one of the best times of year her in the Big Apple. On second thought, though, aren’t all the seasons marvelous here?

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Parsing Sentences Worksheet: Verbs

Posted on April 26, 2018 | Leave a comment

Here is a parsing sentences worksheet for verbs–and here are four more if you want them. I understand this is an old-fashioned kind of activity, but that doesn’t render it obsolete. In fact, I maintain that these shore exercises are an effective way to help students understand both English usage and syntax in sentences.

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Ptolemy

Posted on April 25, 2018 | Leave a comment

Maybe you can use this short reading on Ptolemy as well as the vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet to accompany it. He’s someone students need to know about for the Regents Examination in Global History here in New York.

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Parsing Sentences Worksheet: Prepositions

Posted on April 24, 2018 | Leave a comment

Here is a parsing sentences worksheet for prepositions that I use in a variety of ways, but primarily to begin an instructional period and get excitable and excited adolescents settled and focused.

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Susceptible (adj)

Posted on April 23, 2018 | Leave a comment

You might find some use for this context clues worksheet on the adjective susceptible. It’s a strong adjective and a word anyone interested in entering the health professions should know.

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The Weekly Text, April 20, 2018: Three Context Clues Worksheet on Rational (adj), Irrational (adj), and Rationalism (n)

Posted on April 20, 2018 | Leave a comment

Today is National School Walkout Day during which students across the United States, possessed in general of more good sense than adults in our era, will walk out of school to protest the patent insanity of our nation’s gun laws.

Out of respect for the young people staging this protest, I’ll keep this week’s Text short, to wit these three context clues worksheets on the adjectives rational and irrational, and the noun rationalism. If memory serves, I wrote these initially to attend some lessons on the Enlightenment.

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