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Word Root Exercise: Pod, -Pode

Posted on July 27, 2020 | Leave a comment

OK, esteemed colleagues, here is a worksheet on the Greek word roots pod and pode. They mean foot and feet. These are a couple of very productive roots in English, and sometimes morph into pede–e.g. centipede. Any student with an interest in the healthcare professions would probably benefit from a look at this document.

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Anomaly (n)

Posted on July 27, 2020 | Leave a comment

It’s the Word of the Day at Merriam-Webster today, so here is a context clues worksheet on the noun anomaly. This is surely a good word to know, with use in several domains of knowledge.

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Sperm

Posted on July 27, 2020 | Leave a comment

After typing that header, I have to ask myself what I’m thinking. Well, health teachers and health sciences teachers, I’m thinking maybe you can use this reading on sperm and its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. That is all.

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Word Root Exercise: Sect

Posted on July 20, 2020 | Leave a comment

Alright then, as the great thespian and pet detective Ace Ventura would say, here is a worksheet on the Latin word root sect. It means, as you will quickly see, to cut. You’ll also see that it is a productive root in English, particularly for words in the sciences. So the next time your students are required to dissect something, they will know something about the family of words that sprouts from this root.

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A Lesson Plan on the Fastest Animals on Earth from The Order of Things

Posted on July 20, 2020 | Leave a comment

Here is another reading and analysis lesson from Barbara Ann Kipfer’s The Order of Things, this one on the fastest animals on this planet. You’ll need this list and comprehension questions to work kids through this lesson.

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Adhere (vi/vt)

Posted on July 18, 2020 | Leave a comment

If you can use it, here is a context clues worksheet on the verb adhere. It’s used both intransitively and transitively. It seems like a word students ought to know by the time they walk the stage at their graduation.

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The Devil’s Dictionary: Geology

Posted on July 16, 2020 | Leave a comment

“Geology, n. The science of the earth’s crust—to which, doubtless, will be added that of its interior whenever a man shall come up garrulous out of a well. The geological formations of the globe already noted are catalogued thus: The Primary, or lower one, consists of rocks, bones of mired mules, gaspipes, miners’ tools, antique statues minus the nose, Spanish doubloons and ancestors. The Secondary is largely made up of red worms and moles. The Tertiary comprises railroad tracks, patent pavements, grass, snakes, mouldy boots, beer bottles, tomato cans, intoxicated citizens, garbage, anarchists, snap-dogs and fools.”

Excerpted from: Bierce, Ambrose. David E. Schultz and S.J. Joshi, eds. The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2000. 

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Respirator Therapy

Posted on July 15, 2020 | Leave a comment

Here is a reading on respirator therapy along with its accompanying vocabulary-building and comprehension worksheet. When I pulled out this reading yesterday to process it into the finished documents you see here, I thought it would be a timely item to post. The reading is primarily about the device, long obsolete, if the number of them I’ve seen in junk shops over the years, is any indication known as the iron lung.

So, this doesn’t tell the story of the kinds of ventilators used for keeping COVID19 patients alive, but rather some of its predecessors. That said, there is some information about CPAP machines, a device relatively well-known these days. In any case, the deeper meaning of the reading–what life is like when one must depend on a machine to breathe–is timely indeed.

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A Lesson Plan on Pollutants in the Air from The Order of Things

Posted on July 15, 2020 | Leave a comment

Here is a lesson on pollutants in the air and its accompanying worksheet with a list and its comprehension questions. This is basically a short exercise–informed by a list from Barbara Ann Kipfer’s The Order of Things–that calls upon students to deal simultaneously with two different symbolic systems, to wit numbers and words.

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Word Root Exercise: Pneum/o, Pneumon/o, Pneumat/o, –Pnea, and -Pnoea (Greek)

Posted on July 14, 2020 | Leave a comment

Finally this morning, here is a worksheet on the Greek roots pneum, pneumon-o, -pnea and -pnoea. They mean, variously, breathing, lung, air, and spirit (leave it to the Greeks to blend the literal and metaphorical with ease). This is another worksheet for students interested in the health professions.

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