Here is a worksheet on the verb pay when followed by an object and an infinitive.
You’ll need to pay him to clean your garage.
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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on science fiction. This is a half-page document with a reading of three sentences and three comprehension questions. A concise, symmetrical introduction to this literary genre.
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This week’s Text is a lesson plan on the Greek word roots gen/o, -gene, and -genesis. These, as you have probably inferred, carry several meanings: “production,” “formation,” “generation,” “origin,” “cause,” “birth,” “kind,” and “race.” These roots grow into such high-frequency English words as carcinogen, congenital, and genocide, all of which are included in this scaffolded worksheet.
I open this lesson with this context clues worksheet on the adjective prenatal, which I hoped, perhaps vainly and foolishly, would point the way toward the meanings of these word roots.
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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Fidel Castro. This is a half-page worksheet with a four-sentence reading and four comprehension questions. Just the basics on the late Cuban leader.
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“Gustavo Alvarez Gardeazabal: (1945-) Colombian writer and political figure. Growing up during La Violencia, the civil strife that took over 300,000 lives between 1946 and 1959, he developed a black sense of humor. His early novel, Condores no entierran todos los dias (1971) is the riveting story of a conservative who becomes a death squad leader. El bazar de los idiotas (1974; tr. Bazaar of the Idiots, 1991), a vicious satire on intolerance and religious gullibility, is one of Colombia’s most read novels. Pepe Botellas (1984) is a hilarious political fable about a Cuban exile who tries to become President of Colombia. Alvarez Gardeazabal’s recent fiction has dealt with the corrosive effects of the drug trade on Colombian society.”
Excerpted from: Murphy, Bruce, ed. Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. New York: Harper Collins, 1996.
Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on El Salvador, another Latin American nation that has been in the news quite often lately. This is a full-page worksheet with a reading of four sentences and eight comprehension questions.
A couple of things: the third of the four sentences in the reading is very long; for emergent and struggling readers, it would probably be best edited into smaller clauses. Like most of the Cultural Literacy worksheets I’ve posted during this Hispanic Heritage Month 2025, this one is a literacy exercise designed to help struggling readers understand relatively complex–but short–passages of text. These particularly call upon students to keep straight the cardinal directions of nations bordering on the subject of the document–in this case, El Salvador.
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This week’s Text, for social studies teachers in general and business education teachers in particular, is this context clues worksheet on the noun deficit, another on the noun surplus, and a lexicon to clarify their meanings and use.
Jeez, there really isn’t much more to say about these. I think they explain themselves. If they don’t, you might want to grab a copy of the Context Clues Worksheets Users’ Manuals.
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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Spanish-American War. This is a full-page worksheet with a reading of seven sentences (the sixth of which is a long compound, and probably ought to be edited into smaller pieces for emergent and struggling readers) and seven comprehension questions. As usual, the editors of The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy do an admirable job of condensing complicated events into a cogent snippet of text.
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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Venezuela. This is a full-page worksheet with a reading of six sentences and nine comprehension questions. Venezuela is a nation that has been very much in the news the past few years. so this document might have some currency. It is, in the final analysis, a literacy exercise aimed at helping emergent and struggling readers sort out a relatively complicated–if also relatively brief–passage of text.
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For the penultimate Friday of Hispanic Heritage Month 2025 (for which, as I wrote in the first post of this month, I have, embarrassingly, nothing substantial to publish as a Weekly Text), this week’s Text is this reading on nineteenth-century nationalism along with its attendant vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet.
The reading, along with many others on this blog, comes from the Intellectual Devotional series; I prepared the worksheet. Along with virtually every other document posted here, both of these are formatted in Microsoft Word, so they can be manipulated and adjusted to your classroom’s needs.
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