Tag Archives: diction/grammar/style/usage

Word Root Exercise: Kilo-

Here is a word root worksheet on the Greek word root kilo, which means thousand. This turns up all over the place in English, particularly in metric measurements like kilometer and kiloton. I expect this is a word root students should know for work in the hard sciences–even in a high school classroom.

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.

Everyday Edit: Jacqueline Kennedy

Cleaning out the Women’s History Month warehouse, I came upon this Everyday Edit worksheet on Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. As always, and in the interest of giving credit where it is richly due, let me remind you that the good people at Education World give away a year’s supply of these documents, many of them on high interest topics.

Aesop’s Fables: “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”

Here is a lesson plan on Aesop’s fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” along with its reading 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.

Term of Art: Indirect Question

indirect question: 1. A question as reported in indirect speech: e.g. where he was in I asked where he was. 2. An utterance with the force of a question which is not in an interrogative form. Thus, the sentence I would like to know his name has the form of a declarative (1); but it might be uttered as an indirect question, with the same intention, in this respect, as ‘What is his name?’ Compare indirect speech act.”

Excerpted from: Matthews, P.H., ed. The Oxford Concise Dictionary of Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Demeanor (n)

OK, on a Saturday morning, here is a context clues worksheet on the noun demeanor, which strikes me as a word students ought to know as soon as possible.

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.

The Weekly Text, March 5, 2020, Women’s History Month Week I: A Reading and Comprehension Worksheet on Helen Hunt Jackson

For the first Friday of Women’s History Month 2020, here is a reading on indigenous rights activist Helen Hunt Jackson and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. Her work, which resulted in the disastrously inappropriate Dawes Severalty Act, was nonetheless the first real real attempt–via her book A Century of Dishonor–to bring this country to a reckoning with its genocidal policies against the original inhabitants of this continent.

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.

Crisis (n)

Finally this morning, here is a context clues worksheet on the noun crisis. I can’t imagine why students shouldn’t know this word as soon as possible, developmentally and educationally.

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.

Term of Art: Attributive

“Attributive: Indicating modifying of a noun (usually preceding it); not following a copulative verb, e.g., ‘the imposing woman.’”

Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.

Everyday Edit: Sarah Childress Polk

Here, in continuing observation of Women’s History Month 2020, is an Everyday Edit worksheet on first lady Sarah Childress Polk. She was wed, of course, to President James K. Polk. As I always say when posting these materials, in order to give credit where credit is due, the good people at Education World give away a year’s supply of these worksheets if you find them useful in your practice.

Obesity

Health teachers, here is a reading on obesity along with its attendant vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. Do I need to belabor the importance of this material in a nation as fat as the United States?

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.