“Any of the smallest units of meaning or form within a language, or a verbal element that cannot be further reduced and still retain meaning, e.g. the word ‘woman,’ the prefix ‘un-,’ and the inflection ‘-ize.’ Adjective: morphemic; adverb: morphemically.”
Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.
Here is a parsing sentences worksheet for verbs–and here are four more if you want them. I understand this is an old-fashioned kind of activity, but that doesn’t render it obsolete. In fact, I maintain that these shore exercises are an effective way to help students understand both English usage and syntax in sentences.
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.
Maybe you can use this short reading on Ptolemy as well as the vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet to accompany it. He’s someone students need to know about for the Regents Examination in Global History here in New York.
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.
Here is a parsing sentences worksheet for prepositions that I use in a variety of ways, but primarily to begin an instructional period and get excitable and excited adolescents settled and focused.
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.
You might find some use for this context clues worksheet on the adjective susceptible. It’s a strong adjective and a word anyone interested in entering the health professions should know.
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.
Today is National School Walkout Day during which students across the United States, possessed in general of more good sense than adults in our era, will walk out of school to protest the patent insanity of our nation’s gun laws.
Out of respect for the young people staging this protest, I’ll keep this week’s Text short, to wit these three context clues worksheets on the adjectives rational and irrational, and the noun rationalism. If memory serves, I wrote these initially to attend some lessons on the Enlightenment.
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.
Here is a word root worksheet on the Greek root nephr/o. It means kidney. Hence, the medical specialist who deals with kidneys is a nephrologist.
This is, in other words, another vocabulary-building worksheet for students interested in the health professions.
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.
Here is a context clues worksheet on the verb squander; it’s used both transitively and intransitively.
It’s that thing–you know–that happens with talent in public institutions.
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.
Here is a parsing sentences worksheet for conjunctions that is the kind of thing I use to get students settled after a class change.
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.
Here, on a Monday morning, is a context clues worksheet on the adjective squeamish. Yeah–a perfect word for a Monday morning, therefore one our students should know as they face their own working lives of Monday mornings.
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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