Here is a worksheet on the verb tell when used with an object and an infinitive.
Every day, the professor tells his students to take notes during the lecture.
Doctors tell their patients to take their medications on time.
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.
“socializing intelligence: The expectation that students can be taught to think intelligently by developing ‘habits of mind’ to solve problems, not just to stockpile tidbits of knowledge.”
Excerpted from: Ravitch, Diane. EdSpeak: A Glossary of Education Terms, Phrases, Buzzwords, and Jargon. Alexandria, VA: ASCD, 2007.
Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on status; as you know, and as this worksheet will help your students understand, “status” is the “relative position of an individual within a group, or of a group within a society.” It strikes me as a timely topic in a democracy under threat.
This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of two sentences and three comprehension questions.
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.
“action research: Conventional social science research is concerned to describe, analyze and explain phenomena. The role of the researcher is detached, in order to minimize disturbance of the phenomena under investigation. In action research, however, the research role is involved and interventionist, because research is joined with action in order to plan, implement and monitor change. Researchers become participants in planned policy initiatives and use their knowledge and research expertise to serve a client organization.”
Excerpted from: Abercrombie, Nicholas, Stephen Hill, and Bryan S. Turner. Dictionary of Sociology. New York: Penguin, 2006.
This week’s Text is the third array of templates–these for outlining–derived from the framework of Judith C. Hochman and Natalie Wexler’s The Writing Revolution (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2017). Here is the table of contents for the outlining templates in this tranche of documents. Please forgive the long file name(s). I am publishing a large number of things right now, and I’d like users to be able to keep track of them with ease. In any event, you can rename these–or even rewrite them–as they are all formatted in Microsoft Word for ease of revision, reformatting, and general manipulation.
III-A*Single-Paragraph Outline
III-C* Transition Outline (Two Paragraphs)
III-D*Transtion Outline (Three Paragraphs)
III-E*Single Paragraph Outine (Book Report)
III-F*Multiple-Paragraph Outline (Three Paragraphs)
III-G*Multiple-Paragraph Outline (Four Paragraphs)
III-H*Multiple Paragraph Outline (Five Paragraphs)
III-I.Multiple-Paragraph Outline (Book Report)
III-J*The Match Game–Which Details Go with Which Topic Sentence?
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.
Mark’s Text Terminal bids happy holidays to all its readers around the world.
The Weekly Text for 19 December 2026 (published on Monday, 15 December) and the five posts that accompany are the last posts of this year. I’m taking a two week break for the holidays. On 9 January, new posts return to the blog.
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“A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.
Here is a worksheet on the verb teach when used with an object and an infinitive.
Carlos teaches his dog Sidney to fetch the ball.
The boy taught his mother to speak English more fluently.
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.
“What was the interminable law case in Dickens’ Bleak House (1852-53)? Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, a case stemming from a dispute about distribution of an estate.”
Excerpted from: Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa. Literature: The New York Public Library Book of Answers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.
Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept of a status quo. This Latinism–which means “the state in which”–is a high frequency term in English, especially among educated people. In any event, this is a half-page worksheet with a two sentences and three comprehension questions.
The first sentence is a compound with a colon in the middle of it. If that’s too much for emergent readers or users of English as a second language, simply remove the colon, replace it with a period, and write “For example” in front of the quote that follows.
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.
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