The Stroop effect describes an experiment about the time it takes to name the color of printed words. When you try to name the color in which color words are printed, it takes longer when the color word differs from the ink color than...

In this instructional activity students will create a poem based on the images evoked by certain colors.

[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted the lyrics to Don McLean's "American Pie." Details with a nostalgic tone are blue while details with a sad tone are red and an indignant or outraged tone...

[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken." Text details related to sight are blue, time are red, and agency are green. Click on any word to see the percentage of users that...

[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted Maya Angelou's poem "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings." Details that show unjust treatment are blue while details that show poverty are green, and details...

[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted Aimee Nezhukumatathil's "What I Learned from the Incredible Hulk." allusions are blue, questions or pauses are red, and details that are liked or important...

[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted an excerpt of Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Prologue." Diction is blue while tone is red and imagery is green. Click on any word to see the...

[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the power of love. Details that show love are blue while details that show forgiveness are red. Click on any...

[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted Albert J. Beveridge's "The March of the Flag (1898)." Text highlighted in blue shows benevolence while red shows economic interest in red, and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted Polly Shulman's review of The Lightning Thief published in the New York Times. Quotations from the text are blue while summaries are red, and the reviewer's...

[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted an excerpt from Frederick Douglass' narrative. Details that show pathos are blue while details that show catalogue are red and details that show epistrophe...

A is for 4 A-Bomb was written and illustrated by a sophomore student at West Platte High School. The student created this project as part of a world history investigation on the atomic bomb. After researching the impact of the bombs and...

Strategies for grouping students during cooperative learning including Pick a Word, Tongue Depressors, Color Pencils, Group of the Day, Genre Groups, Burger Buddies, and Birthday Buddies.

Strategies for grouping students during cooperative learning including Pick a Word, Tongue Depressors, Color Pencils, Group of the Day, Genre Groups, Burger Buddies, and Birthday Buddies.

Strategies for grouping students during cooperative learning including Pick a Word, Tongue Depressors, Color Pencils, Group of the Day, Genre Groups, Burger Buddies, and Birthday Buddies.

[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted James Still's "Mine is a Wide Estate." Text details that are neutral are blue, non-Appalachian are red, and Appalachian are green. Click on any word to see...

[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have Frank X. Walker's "Affrilachia." Text details that are neutral are blue, African-American are red, and Appalachian are green. Click on any word to see the percentage of...

[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have ReadWorks' "What Mitosis Has to Do with Families." Text details related to descriptions are blue, definitions/examples are red, and comparisons/contrasts are green....

[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted Judith Pordon's "Maples." Imagery is blue while personification is red and archetype is green. Click on any word to see the percentage of users that...

[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted an excerpt from William Butler Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium." Details that show aging are blue, nature imagery details are red, and body descriptions are...

[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have Dr. Charles Tindley's "We Shall Overcome." Details showing emotions are blue while inferences are red, and meaningful repetition is green. Click on any word to see the...

[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted an advertisement from ADT. Details that show logos are blue while ethos are red and pathos are green. Click on any word to see the percentage of users that...

[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted an excerpt from chapter 33 of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. Details that show a supernatural or gothic element are blue while details that show strong...

[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted Roald Dahl's "Learning to Chunk." Details that show characterization are blue while details that appeal to visualization or the senses are red and questions...