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.

Common Errors in English Usage: In Spite Of (prep), Despite (prep)

Posted on July 11, 2022 | Leave a comment

From Paul Brians’ excellent book Common Errors in English Usage (which you can access for free by clicking on that hyperlink), here is a worksheet on the use of in spite of and despite in prose. This is a full-page worksheet with a reading to drive some extemporaneous writing using these two prepositions.

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Cultural Literacy: Avatar

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Here is a Cultural Literacy on the concept of the avatar. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of three short sentences and three comprehension questions. Interestingly, the reading in this worksheet deals with the concept of the avatar in Hinduism, but not the avatar as a graphical representation of a computer user that is usually reflective of a person’s character or persona.

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Envision (vt)

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Here is a context clues on the verb envision. It is used only transitively and means–as the context clues in the sentences in this document point towards–“to picture to oneself.”

And that is pretty much it–other than, perhaps, a mild argument that this is a word students should know before they graduate high school.

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The Weekly Text, 8 July 2022: A Lesson Plan on Subordinating Conjunctions (Part 1)

Posted on July 7, 2022 | Leave a comment

This week’s Text is the first of two related lessons on subordinating conjunctions; the next one will appear here next Friday.

I open this lesson with this worksheet on the homophones feat and feet. In the event that the lesson spills over into a second day, here is a second do-now worksheet, this one an Everyday Edit exercise on Bessie Coleman. If you and your students enjoy (I’ve taught students who derived great satisfaction working with these) Everyday Edit worksheets, incidentally, the good people at Education World give away a yearlong supply of them at no cost.

To execute this lesson, you’ll need this scaffolded worksheet. Finally, you might find this teacher’s copy of the worksheet useful.

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Common English Verbs Followed by Gerunds: Mention

Posted on July 7, 2022 | Leave a comment

Last and quite likely least this morning, here is a worksheet on the verb mention when used with a gerund. Did I mention seeing Seven Samurai at the Anthology Film Archives?

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Nuclear Fission

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Moving along, here is a reading on nuclear fission with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. Science teachers take note (I guess): This is a good general introduction to a complicated topic.

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Word Root Exercise: Vor

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Here is a worksheet on the Latin word root vor, which means to eat. You’ll find this productive root, unsurprisingly, at the base of words like carnivore, herbivore, and insectivore and voracious (all included in this document) as well as omnivore, not included here but a nice example of a pair of Latin roots–omni means all–combining to give us a useful word–someone or something that eats everything.

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Cultural Literacy: Attila the Hun

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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Attila the Hun. This is a half-page worksheet with a three-sentence reading and three comprehension questions. This is a good general introduction to Attila, but to appreciate fully the wide swath he cut through history, and the consequences of it, you will probably need to dig a little deeper than this document does.

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Envisage (vt)

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Here is a context clues worksheet on the verb envisage, which is only used transitively–so don’t forget your direct object. The word itself means “to view or regard in a certain way,” and  “to have a mental picture of especially in advance of realization,” which are the definitions this worksheet’s context clues aim to elicit from students.

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Common English Verbs Followed by Gerunds: Keep

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Here is a worksheet on the verb keep as it is used with a gerund. I keep denigrating these documents; should I?

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