Tag Archives: building vocabulary/conceptual knowledge

Moving right along this morning, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Transcontinental Railroad. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of five sentences and three comprehension questions. I assume it goes without saying that this estimable civil engineering project, ultimately, exercised a deleterious effect on the indigenous peoples in its path.

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.

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Puritans, those humorless English who were the first to arrive here from England. It wasn’t long after their arrival that they began helping themselves to the land and resources of the local indigenous peoples–without whom the Puritans may have not survived on this continent.

This is a full-page worksheet with a reading of seven sentences and seven comprehension questions. This might be best divided into two parts for emergent readers and students who struggle to sustain attention to tasks.

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.