If you need it, here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the idiom “any port in a storm.”
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.
I’m not entirely confident high school students take any interest in him, but if they do, here is a reading on Bruce Springsteen with a comprehension worksheet to accompany it. He has effortlessly kept himself relevant since I first heard his music in 1975.
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 comprehension worksheet on Whitney Houston that I wrote to attend the Wikipedia article on the singer and actress. A student in one of the ELA intervention classes I co-teach requested it, so I whipped it up.
A couple of things about this document: first, it follows the Wikipedia article very closely as one scrolls down through it. Even though it looks like the user will have to perform wide and careful searches–and they do, even following the order of the article as closely as this sheet does–all he or she will really need to do is read the article and follow along with the questions. Second, it is long, so I’ve compressed all the material onto one page for the teacher’s convenience. The worksheet will need to be formatted properly, but it can also be edited easily for differentiation in whatever way is appropriate for your student or students.
In any case, the student for whom I developed this expressed her satisfaction with it.
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.
In my classroom, we recently completed a vocabulary building exercise using the Greek word roots anthro– and anthropo- (they mean man and human) as a starting point. Here is a Cultural Literacy worksheet on anthropomorphism to deepen understanding of this particular concept if anyone is interested.
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.
At the beginning of another work week (for me, one of the odder pleasures of getting older is no longer dreading Monday mornings), here is a reading on Wayne Gretzky and the comprehension worksheet that accompanies it. I’ve been producing quite a few new readings and worksheets, particularly high interest stuff, so they’ll be showing up here from time to time.
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.
This independent practice worksheet on Alexander the Great probably fits into the social studies curriculum somewhere between grades six and nine. You can always adapt it; like everything else here, the document is in the easily manipulable Microsoft Word.
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 reading on Mickey Mouse and its accompanying comprehension worksheet. I continue to have good luck using this kind of short, high-interest reading with students who dislike reading and are unequivocal about that sentiment.
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.
On a grey and chilly Saturday morning, here is something timely: a Cultural Literacy worksheet on the Women’s Movement. It might help your students understand how we reached the point we have in our zeitgeist. It turns out, to the surprise of very few, that women prefer not to be thought of or treated like objects.
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.
As I’ve mentioned elsewhere on this blog, I took a new job a couple of months ago; I’m now five weeks in, and so far so good. I’m spread much less thin, and working on literacy issues with much greater focus.
Which has permitted me the time, and the clarity of students who know their interests, to develop some new material, including this reading on comics legend Stan Lee and the comprehension worksheet to accompany it which students requested in an interest survey. You will note, particularly if you’ve heretofore downloaded and used other readings and comprehension worksheets from Mark’s Text Terminal, that these two documents are quite a bit longer than is the norm here. I find that bears what I hope is a brief explanation.
First of all, I synthesized this article from Wikipedia’s page on Stan Lee. While I do understand educators’ concerns with Wikipedia, I don’t think it’s necessarily a great idea to write off the site completely. I use Wikipedia heavily, support it financially, and believe it a worthy resource for certain types of work and fact-finding. In any case, where Wikipedia suffers what I’ll charitably call epistemological problems, I find them limited to politics, especially contemporary politics, and hot-button controversies. An article on someone like Stan Lee, in my experience, is highly unlikely to have been tampered with, and therefore unlikely to contain untruths.
Second, as to length. After trying to keep this reading to one page, I decided to edit together a relatively comprehensive biography of Lee. Thus it ran to two pages, and the comprehension worksheet to five. It goes without saying, I assume, that this document, as are all documents on this website, is in Microsoft Word format. Therefore, you may edit both documents to suit your students’ and your needs. I know this may be too much for some readers; simply cut sections you think are superfluous, and voila! You have differentiated instruction for one or more students.
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’s an independent practice worksheet on Aristotle. Just posting it on this chilly (21 degrees) December morning in Massachusetts brings to mind a sun-drenched agora in Athens, where philosophers passed afternoons discussing the nature of the universe.
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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