This worksheet features using colons as an introduction to a quotation.
Conjunctive Adverbs and Independent Clauses
Conjunctive adverbs can work like a conjunction when they connect independent clauses.
Context Clues for Meaning
Here’s a high school drill for using context clues for finding word meanings.
Context Clues in Julius Caesar
“Julius Caesar” is the text for this context clue worksheet.
Context Clues: Reading for Meaning
A passage from “A Tale of Two Cities” is the focus for this context clues worksheet.
Correct Spelling: Right or Wrong
In this “Right or Wrong” classroom activity, your students will correct spelling mistakes while proofreading the sentences on this worksheet.
Cyrano de Bergerac: Poetic Speech
Edmund Rostand wrote Cyrano de Bergerac in 1897. It is a play about a French musketeer who is a man of many gifts and talents. Students read from the play and answer related questions.
Different Perspectives: The American Revolution
Poet Rudyard Kipling offers an alternative perspective on the American Revolution in this worksheet on point of view.
Find It! Faulty Parallel Construction
Practice recognizing faulty parallel construction by completing this printable worksheet. This activity focuses on refining editing and proofing skills. It is ideal for high school students, but can be used where appropriate. Because it is made easy to print, this worksheet is great for use both at home and in the classroom by parents, teachers, or students. Click the link below to download and print the worksheet to get started.
Find the Meaning: JFK’s Inaugural Speech
In this worksheet, your student will determine the meaning of some phrases in President Kennedy’s Inaugural Speech.
Finding Meaning In Context
This worksheet uses a passage from “Jane Eyre” to develop your student’s skills with context clues.
Formal to Informal: Make the Change
The Declaration of Independence is ready for your student’s modern translation!
Gettysburg Address Context Clues
In this worksheet, your student will use context clues as a way to discover the meaning of words.
Great Expectations: Pip Meets a Criminal
Charles Dickens published Great Expectations in 1860. It is the story of Phillip Pirrip, called Pip, growing up from a young boy to a man. Students read a passage and answer related questions.
Halloween and Figurative Language Worksheet Activty
Help your students better understand figurative language with this classroom activity on similes and idioms. Students will practice interpreting different phrases, such as ‘web of lies’ and ‘ghosts of a chance’, with this printable worksheet.
Hamlet: Using Context for Word Meaning
Hamlet’s encounter with his father’s ghost is the scene for this context clue worksheet.
High School Spelling Words List – General Spelling Rules
Here is a general spelling rules handout for students
High School Spelling Words List Week 1 – Words Ending in -ant and -ent
Week one high school spelling list includes these 10 words: argument, convenient, equipment, excellent, excitement, experiment, permanent, pleasant, servant, temperament.
High School Spelling Words List Week 10 – Words Ending in -ant, -ent, -ence, -ance, -ary, and -ery
Week ten high school spelling list includes these ten words: appearance, attendance, cemetery, existence, experience, independence, parents, secretary, sentence, sergeant.
High School Spelling Words List Week 11 – Vowel Concerns: A
Spelling activities for the week ten high school spelling list contains these words: acquaint, embarrass, library, magazine, many, obstacle, preparation, separate, similar, village.