Tag Archives: cultural literacy

Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Fidel Castro. This is a half-page worksheet with a four-sentence reading and four comprehension questions. Just the basics on the late Cuban leader.

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 El Salvador, another Latin American nation that has been in the news quite often lately. This is a full-page worksheet with a reading of four sentences and eight comprehension questions.

A couple of things: the third of the four sentences in the reading is very long; for emergent and struggling readers, it would probably be best edited into smaller clauses. Like most of the Cultural Literacy worksheets I’ve posted during this Hispanic Heritage Month 2025, this one is a literacy exercise designed to help struggling readers understand relatively complex–but short–passages of text. These particularly call upon students to keep straight the cardinal directions of nations bordering on the subject of the document–in this case, El Salvador.

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.