Tag Archives: diction/grammar/style/usage

Write it Right: Advisedly for Advertently, Intentionally

Posted on April 4, 2020 | Leave a comment

“Advisedly for Advertently, Intentionally. ‘It was done advisedly’ should mean that it was done after advice.”

Excerpted from: Bierce, Ambrose. Write it Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2010.

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Counterpart (n)

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Here is a context clues worksheet on the noun counterpart which is in common enough use that students ought to know it before they leave high school.

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.

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Hippocrates

Posted on April 4, 2020 | Leave a comment

Here is a reading on Hippocrates and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. I assume I don’t need to explain why now might be a good time to read about the father of modern medicine and the historical embodiment of why politicians and half-wit journalists should not pronounce on medical issues like, oh let’s say chloroquine as a treatment for COVID19.

If you find typos in these documents, 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.

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The Weekly Text, April 3, 2020, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2020 Week I: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on Kazuo Ishiguro

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The Weekly Text for the first Friday of Asian Pacific American History Month 2020 is a reading novelist and Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro along with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. I’ve read three of his novels over the years and can say confidently that he richly deserves the honors and plaudits he has received.

If you find typos in these documents, 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.

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Everyday Edit: Hawaii, the 50th State

Posted on April 3, 2020 | Leave a comment

Moving right along this morning, here is an Everyday Edit worksheet on Hawaii, America’s 50th State.

And as always, to give credit where it is so abundantly due, you should know that the good people at Education World generously offer at no cost to you a yearlong supply of these documents. I’ve used them for many years in my classrooms, and they are first rate.

And if you find typos in this document, for heaven’s sake fix them! That’s the whole point here….

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Testis

Posted on April 2, 2020 | Leave a comment

OK, last but not least this afternoon, for you health teachers, here is a short reading on testis along with its attendant vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet if you can use them.

If you find typos in these documents, 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.

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Independent Practice: Ashikaga

Posted on April 2, 2020 | Leave a comment

Global studies teachers, here is an independent practice worksheet on the Ashikaga shogunate. This is a basic reading comprehension worksheet. I cannot remember why I wrote it, but I must have needed it for something. Like almost everything else at Mark’s Text Terminal, this document is in Microsoft Word; it is easily manipulated for your needs.

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.

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Everyday Edit: Yoshiko Uchida

Posted on April 2, 2020 | Leave a comment

In observation of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2020, here is an Everyday Edit worksheet on Yoshiko Uchida, the Japanese-American writer who suffered the indignity of internment in California during World War II (see above). Please don’t forget that the generous proprietors of the Education World website give away for the taking a yearlong supply of Everyday Edit worksheets. I’ve used these documents to very good effect in my classrooms over the years.

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Word Root Exercise: Liter

Posted on April 1, 2020 | Leave a comment

OK, finally this morning, here is a worksheet on the Latin word root liter. While it sounds like it should be related to a measure of liquid (as we use it by itself in English), it actually means letter. Now you know why you find it at the root of words like literature in English. Needless to say, this is a very productive root in English.

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.

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John Lennon

Posted on April 1, 2020 | Leave a comment

OK, I’m drawing down to the last couple of posts for this morning. Here is a high-interest (depending on whom you’re teaching, I guess) reading on John Lennon along with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet.

If you find typos in these documents, 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.

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