Tag Archives: cultural literacy

Here is Cultural Literacy worksheet on the topic sentence as a unit of composition in a paragraph. This is a half-page document with a reading of two sentences and two comprehension questions. A basic, symmetrical, and surprisingly thorough exposition of the form and function of a topic sentence.

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.

It’s hard to imagine that I haven’t (my primary interest as a teacher has been in assisting students in developed advanced literacy) that I haven’t heretofore published this Cultural Literacy worksheet on vowels somewhere along the line in the ten-year existence of this blog. It’s probably embedded in a lesson plan somewhere. But here it is as an easily searchable standalone post.

This is a half-page document with a (longish) one-sentence reading and two 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.

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on diction. This is a half-page worksheet with a three sentence reading and three comprehension questions. This is a good general introduction to the concept of diction, that is, word choice.

However, the third sentence comes with this warning: for struggling and emergent readers, this sentence will almost certainly need to be rewritten. If you look at the way the clauses are punctuated, breaking up this monster and making it comprehensible mostly does itself. As I prepared this post, I looked at this document and found, like some of these half-page worksheets, it looked a bit crowded. A revision might knock this into a full-page document, which would allow for some critical, brainstorming questions about diction.

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.