Tag Archives: diction/grammar/style/usage

From Barbara Ann Kipfer’s fascinating reference book The Order of Things, this week’s Text is a lesson plan on birthday flowers by month. This is a relatively simple reading and writing lesson designed expressly for struggling and emergent readers as well as students of English as a new language. You’ll need this worksheet with the reading and comprehension questions that drive the work of this short lesson.

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This week’s Text is this lesson plan on anniversary gifts along with its attendant reading worksheet with comprehension questions. The reading (as is the case with all readings under the current header) is a list from Barbara Ann Kipfer’s magisterial reference book The Order of Things. I’ve said it before, but it bears saying again: the lesson plans I have thus far developed based on entries from The Order of Things are aimed at struggling or emergent readers.

This particular lesson might be useful in a broader unit about folkways and customs. In my experience, social studies classes tend to regularly deal with folkways and customs–i.e. culture–without explicitly addressing the concepts these words represent. That baffles me, as the broad culture has such rich possibilities for transfer into other learning domains.

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.