Here is a worksheet on the verb invite when used with an object or an infinitive.
The principal invited the teacher to stop criticizing high-stakes testing.
The teacher invited the principal to think more carefully about pedagogical theory and practice.
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“Critique (noun): A critical appraisal or commentary, especially of a literary work; an acute review or evaluation, generally with respect to an understood standard or interested public; report. Verb: critique.
‘The New Yorker recently observed, in a memorial note about the late Wolcott Gibbs, that if his written editorial opinions ‘could be released to the world (as they most assuredly can’t be), they would make probably a funnier and sounder critique of creative writing in the late twenties and early thirties than has ever been assembled.’ John Fischer, in Writing in America”
Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.
Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the idiom high horse, as in “to be on one’s high horse.” This is still, I think, a relatively common expression in American English. In any event, it is one of those idioms that requires prior knowledge and interpretive skills–you know, those things that combine into semantic webs that we no longer teach for, preferring the narrow, blinkered tests that crappy educational publishers produce.
This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of one long, kind of complicated compound sentence; you may want to overhaul the text for emergent readers or students for whom English is a second or third language.
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This week’s Text is a lesson plan on the Latin word root sect. It means “to cut.” Now that you know that, I imagine that you see that this productive word root in English grows such high-frequency words as dissect, intersect (intersection is probably more common in everyday usage), and more specialized terms of art from health care (many students in my school are interested in careers in the health sciences) like resection, and that bane of animal lovers everywhere, vivisection.
This lesson opens with this context clues worksheet on the verb snip, (for the context in this document, it is an intransitive verb meaning “to make a short quick cut with or as if with shears or scissors”), a frequently used verb in everyday English meant to point students toward the meaning of sect. This scaffolded worksheet, replete with Romance language cognates, is the mainstay of this lesson.
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Last but not least of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2025, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Muhammad. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of three simple sentences and three comprehension questions. A basic introduction to the Prophet of Islam.
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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Mongolia. This is a full-page worksheet with a reading of six sentences–the first one is a bit complicated, but otherwise these are relatively simple declarative sentences–and eight comprehension questions. Most of the work in reading and interpretation on this document involves answering questions to form a mental picture of where exactly Mongolia is in the world.
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For the final Friday of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2025, here is a reading on the Battle of Midway along with its attendant vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. This is solid material on one of the turning points in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Mahatma Gandhi. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of four sentences–two of which are compounds that aren’t difficult, but may need revision for certain readers–and five comprehension questions.
A good basic introduction to Gandhi, which joins a growing body of material on him on this blog.
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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on Baghdad. This is a half-page worksheet with a reading of three short sentences–one of which succinctly states that “Baghdad has long been one of the great cities of the Muslim world”–and three comprehension questions.
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This week’s Text, in observance of the fourth Friday of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2025, is this reading on Yasir Arafat along with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet.
I’m hard pressed to imagine there is much, if any, demand for these documents; moreover, I understand that Yasir Arafat is a controversial figure. But I also understand that however one perceives Arafat and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), he is an important figure in the the history of part of the world we, after the ancient Greeks and Romans, call Asia.
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