Tag Archives: building vocabulary/conceptual knowledge

Bogus (adj)

Should fate somehow require you to teach a lesson on Bill & Ted, you’ll probably find this context clues worksheet on the adjective bogus useful. Your students really do deserve to know why Bill and Ted’s journey was bogus.

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Michelangelo

A reader wrote in this morning asking if I could post this Intellectual Devotional reading on Michelangelo. I typed this into a Word document so that I could edit and differentiate it for a variety of readers; the document’s header reflects the course in which I primarily use it. Since it is a Word document, you may edit it for your purposes as well. Finally, here again is the reading comprehension worksheet to accompany the reading.

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The Weekly Text, October 6, 2017, Hispanic Heritage Month 2017 Week IV: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on Diego Velazquez

For this, the fourth week of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Mark’s Text Terminal offers this Intellectual Devotional reading on Diego Velazquez. Here is a reading comprehension worksheet to accompany it.

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Concise (adj)

Here is a context clues worksheet on the adjective concise, a word, and certainly a concept, students should understand by the time they graduate high school.

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A Greek and Latin Word Root Master List for Roots Appearing on Mark’s Text Terminal

Although I’ve posted this document  in the Word Roots Worksheets section of the About Weekly Texts page on the masthead here at Mark’s Text Terminal, here again is my master list of Greek and Latin word roots at the request of several students in my Wednesday institute class. You guys here at HSE&F, Just click on that hyperlink, and the document will download to the desktop of your computer. Anyone else interested in this document, do the same.

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.

The Weekly Text, September 29, 2017, Hispanic Heritage Month 2017 Week III: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on Miguel De Cervantes

For the third Friday of Hispanic Heritage Month, 2017, Mark’s Text Terminal offers a reading on Miguel de Cervantes and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet.

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Coalition (n)

You might find this context clues worksheet on the noun coalition helpful in assisting your social studies students in understanding this noun.

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Cultural Literacy: Primogeniture

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on primogeniture, a concept that almost certainly recurs in most high school social studies classes.

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The Weekly Text, September 22, 2017, Hispanic Heritage Month Week II: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on Simon Bolivar

It’s the end of the first week of National Hispanic Heritage Month. Here is a reading on Simon Bolivar from the Intellectual Devotional series. To accompany it, here is a comprehension worksheet.

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Accumulate (vt/vi)

Here is a context clues worksheet on the verb accumulate, which Merriam-Webster’s observes is used both transitively and intransitively.

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