Activity
Curated OER

Macmillan/mc Graw Hill: Writing: Consistent Style and Tone

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Learn about maintaining a consistent style and tone in writing.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Use Precise Language and Domain Specific Vocabulary

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This site provides 17 English language arts lessons for 7th grade. Grade-level standards are provided.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Pov Collection

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
POV (a cinema term for "point of view") is television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. POV premieres 14-16 of the best, boldest and most innovative programs every year on PBS. Since 1988, POV has presented...
Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Annotating Text

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This strategy helps learners refine their understanding of texts to meet reading expectations and prepare for writing about texts.
Article
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Road to Representation Creating the Crunchy Life Kid's Series

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This blog focuses on a teacher's need to fill in the gaps for reading strategies and the priority to improve comprehension and overall reading development. She explains the strategies to meet the above goals.
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Rags to Riches: Literary Elements: Setting, Plot, and Characters

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
In this game, students answer questions about the story elements of setting, plot, and characters
Interactive
E Reading Worksheets

Ereading Worksheet: Author's Purpose

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
A ten-question interactive reading exercise over the author's purpose. An embed code is available for class websites.
Website
Curated OER

Ccss Literacy E Handbook: Literature: Summarize

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
An explanation of summarizing a selection along with a link to a model summarizing activity.
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Quia

Quia: Character Terms

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Complete each sentence by typing the correct character word into each box in this ten-question quiz.
Handout
University of Victoria (Canada)

The U Vic Writer's Guide: Literary Term: Bombast

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from The UVic Writer's Guide provides an excellent description of bombast language. Content includes a literary example.
Activity
Quia

Quia: Story Elements Practice

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
This series of flashcards from Quia helps students perform a quick check of their understanding of student elements, such as setting and conflict.
Activity
Application Magazine

Aplicaciones: Ortografia Del Quijote

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
There are thirty exercises with texts from Don Quixote. You can test your spelling and reading comprehension knowledge.
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Interpreting Literature Terms

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
A fourteen-part learning module on literary terms including links to text, videos, word lists and images on literary terms such as plot, setting, character, point of view, style, theme, and more.
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Text Connections Pompeii in Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A fourteen-part learning module with links to texts, videos, and websites that demonstrate text connections through various texts about Pompeii.
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Literature Circle Differention Using Web 2.0 Tools

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A fourteen-part learning module with links to websites for use with literature circles.
Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Nonfiction Comprehension: Making Personal and Textual Connections

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
This is a lesson plan to help elementary young scholars connect to nonfiction text as they read.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Using Specific Detail

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This elementary flipchart promotes creative writing using supportive details. Students will explore examples from literature and consider ways to improve their writing.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: What a Character

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses ways that authors reveal character traits. Students learn to find examples in the literature to demonstrate that character traits. A sample assessment, graphic organizer and web...
Website
E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: English Worksheets and Tests

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Downloadable worksheets and tests focusing on reading, figurative language, genre, language arts, point of view, and text structure for middle grades.
Rubric
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Holt Assessment: Evaluating Nonfiction [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This one-page printable worksheet is designed for classroom use in evaluating a reading of nonfiction. The evaluation is set up in a rubric format.
Activity
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Reader Response Quest. To Focus and Reflect on Literature

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Daily Teaching Tools provides nineteen reading response prompts for fiction and six reading response prompts for nonfiction. W.11-12.9a Amer Lit 18th,19th, 20th cen/Analy
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Flash Cards: Vocabulary 1: Nonfiction

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
These interactive flashcards focuses on terms relating to nonfiction. These terms include the following: nonfiction, fiction, glossary, index, table of contents, headings, subheadings, caption, boldface, italicized, preface, sidebar, and...
Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: Match Game: Vocabulary 1: Nonfiction

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
In this interactive game, students match terms relating to nonfiction with their definitions. These terms include the following: nonfiction, fiction, glossary, index, table of contents, headings, subheadings, caption, boldface,...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: The Elements of Nonfiction [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A short worksheet which allows students to improve their understanding of the elements of nonfiction literature. Provides eight questions and allows students to craft responses for a given literary text.