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 Main Idea: Call of the Wild
After reading a passage from “Call of the Wild” by Jack London, students write the main idea and two supporting ideas.
Find the Main Idea: Major Art Movements
A worksheet about the major art movements. Students write the main idea and 4 supporting ideas.
Find the Main Idea: Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Students read a passage from the book, Moby Dick by Herman Melville, and write down the main idea and two supporting ideas.
Find the Main Idea: O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Students read a passage from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather and write down the main idea and supporting ideas.
Find the Main Idea: Romeo and Juliet
Students read a passage from Act II Scene 2 from Romeo and Juliet, and write the main idea and supporting ideas.
Find the Main Idea: Solar Eclipses
Students write the main idea and supporting ideas after reading a few passages about solar eclipses.
Find the Main Idea: The Mississippi River
Students read a paragraph about the Mississippi River and write down the main idea and supporting ideas.
Find the Main Idea: Three Reading Passages
Students read three different passages and choose the correct main idea for each.
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.