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Critical Reading: How the Language Really Works: What's Critical Thinking?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Reading and writing are essentially thinking. This site examines the aspects of critical thinking, including rationality, self-awareness, honesty, open-mindedness, discipline, and judgment. RI.11-12.10a Text Complexity
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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.
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Ancestry

Historical Narratives

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Here, you can read historical narratives spanning from 1791 to 1850. RL.11-12.10a/b Text Complexity
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Introduction to Reading and Interpreting Literary Texts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This introduction to reading and analyzing text features a list of learning objectives for analyzing prose and poetry, and an understanding of critical approaches to literary interpretation.
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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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Prezi: What Is Complex Literature?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Prezi was created by Marko Zlomislic. The presentation explains what constitutes complex literature. It defines complex texts, discusses the varied benefits of learning to read them, and provides links to lesson plans and examples....
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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.
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Wisewire: English La Grades 9 10 Playlist: Analyzing Different Mediums

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan works with students to analyze different mediums. RL.9-10.7 analyze 2 media.
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Teaching Channel: Exploring Poetic Elements

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This is a teacher demonstrating and discussing teaching students poetic elements: learning the literary terms, their definitions, and how to apply the information when analyzing poetry.