Here is a short reading on the German measles, also known as rubella, along with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. In some respects, this is a short reading on epidemiology as well, which, of course, makes it timely.
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I was all but certain that I had previously posted this lesson plan on the timeline of global history, but I can’t find it anywhere on Mark’s Text Terminal. So, here is a context clues worksheet on the noun chronology with which I open this lesson. Here is the reading, which is really a list of significant dates in world history; here also are the questions to answer in worksheet form. Finally, here are is the teacher’s copy of the worksheet, i.e. the answers.
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Here are five homophone worksheets on the nouns symbol and cymbal.
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Here is a lesson plan on Aesop’s Fable “The Mischievous Dog.” Here also is a worksheet with the fable itself and some comprehension questions. These lessons, which I had just begun to develop when I left my final job in public education, have a lot of room for amplification, and therefore improvement.
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Here is a lesson plan on the Crime and Puzzlement case “Casey at the Plate.”
I open this investigation with this Cultural Literacy worksheet on the concept of a “significant other” as a do-now exercise. Here is a scan of the illustrations and questions that drive the case; finally, here is the typescript of the answer key.
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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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