OK, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the idiom “strike while iron is hot.” Since blacksmiths aren’t really front-and-center participants in our modern industrial economy, this idiom may well be on its way to extinction. Nonetheless, I still hear it invoked from time to time.
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If there is a better time to post this reading on antibodies and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet, I can’t imagine when it would be.
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It’s an old-fashioned word, and may in fact one of those nouns that the late, great Joseph Mitchell called “tinsel words.” Nonetheless, here is a context clues worksheet on the noun derring-do. It means, for those who have never seen an Errol Flynn film, “daring action” and is often used in the locution “deeds of derring-do.”
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[If you would prefer this document as a learning support in Microsoft Word, it’s under that hyperlink.]
8. Use a dash to set off an abrupt break or interruption and to announce a long appositive or summary.
A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses.
His first thought on getting out of bed—if he had any thought at all—was to get back in again.
The rear axle began to make a noise—a grinding, chattering, teeth-gritting rasp.
The increasing reluctance of the sun to rise, the extra nip in the breeze, the patter of shed leaves dropping—all evidences of fall drifting into winter were clearer each day.
Use a dash only when a more common mark of punctuation seems inadequate.
Her father’s suspicions proved well-founded—it was not Edward she cared for—it was San Francisco.
Her father suspicions proved well-founded. It was not Edward she cared for, it was San Francisco.
Violence—the kind you see on television—is not honestly violent—there lies its harm.
Violence, the kind you see on television, is not honestly violent. There lies its harm.
Excerpted from: Strunk, William Jr., and E.B. White. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition. New York: Longman, 2000.
Posted in English Language Arts, Quotes, Reference
Tagged diction/grammar/style/usage, learning supports, punctuation
Here is a complete lesson plan on the Greek word root biblio-, which means, simply, book. This is a very productive root in English (think Bible, among other words). If you are an English or Social Studies teacher, chances are you’ve asked your students to produce a (maybe even an annotated one) bibliography–i.e. some writing, in list form, about books
I open this lesson with this context clues worksheet on the noun novel as a way of hinting to students where this lesson is going. Finally, here is the worksheet that is the basis of the learning for this lesson.
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Here is a context clues worksheet on the verb devise, which is used only transitively. In other words, don’t forget the direct object naming what you intend to devise.
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Moving right along this morning, here is a lesson plan on the Crime and Puzzlement case “Of Ghouls and Goblins.”
I open this lesson with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept of the role model. Finally, to execute this lesson, you’ll need the PDF of the illustration and questions and the typescript of the answer key.
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Here are five homophone worksheets on the nouns troop and troupe.
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Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Sword of Damocles. This expression, which comments on the ever-present danger to those in power from their courtiers. You’ll hear this turn up occasionally as an idiom in educated discourse.
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OK, here, on a sunny Sunday morning, is a lesson plan on collective nouns and subject-verb agreement. I open this lesson with this Everyday Edit worksheet on artist Alexander Calder (and, as always, in the interest of giving credit where credit is due, remember that you can find a year’s worth of Everyday Edit worksheets–for free–at the Education World website). I include this learning support on forming plural nouns with this lesson.
This scaffolded worksheet is at the center of the lesson. Finally, here is the teacher’s copy of the worksheet.
Parenthetically, let me mention that I have tagged this as a Weekly Text. Normally, I only post a Weekly Text on Friday, then cross-post it at the AFT’s Share My Lesson website. Until the COVID19 crisis passes, I’ll be putting up materials I would normally only post as Weekly Texts as, well let’s call them Daily Texts.
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