Enhance the reading experience with a set of lessons designed to improve textual analysis. Seventh graders use guiding questions to read both informational text and literature closely in the first part of the unit. Next, they work on...

Good discussion questions, quizzes, and tests teach as well as assess. Readers of The Great Gatsby will learn much from the materials in a 36-page packet designed to help students prepare for the AP Literature exam. Included in the...

 The narrative works of Frederick Douglass engage learners in the topic of slavery. They will experience American history in a new way, a Douglass expresses his thoughts in his own words. Pupils then interpret this literary...

Should a criminal's punishment match the crime? An argumentative writing plan explores this question as class members investigate a variety of mixed-medium sources by experts in the field, form evidence-based claims, and support them...

Armstrong Sperry's Newbery Medal winning Call It Courage, the story of the journey of Mafatu, a young Pacific Islander, is the core text of a 26-page resource guide.

Provides a number of questions that students can ask themselves about a literary passage when doing a "Close Reading" and following this with an organized piece of writing. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.5

[Free Registration/Login Required] This paired text focuses on the theme of Discovery; it includes two reading passages, "Jack's Lost Kite" and "The Treasure Map," comprehension questions for each passage, and a combined set of questions...

[Free Registration/Login Required] The paired passages "My Three Sisters" and "Whom Does He Look Like?" have the common theme of physical similarities between family members. Comprehension question sets are available for each separately...

[Free Registration/Login Required] These paired texts "Kareem's Playdate" and "Luisa Builds a Model" both have representations of physical space. A reading comprehension question set for each separately, a set for the two together, and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] The paired passages "A Trip to the Store" and "Troy's Treat" have purchashing food in common. Question sets are available for each passage separately and combined.

[Free Registration/Login Required] The two passages "A Lion in the Bedroom" and "The Wishing Tree" both have fantastical elements. Question sets are available for each passage separately on one combined.

[Free Registration/Login Required] The two passages "Apple the Cat Calls a Meeting to Order" and "Trouble at Reading Railroad" share the theme of problems and their consequences. Question sets are provided for each passage separately and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] The passages "Clara and Philip the Turtle" and "Chirping Chirp" share the common theme of caring for injured animals. Question sets are provided for each passage separately and one combined.

[Free Registration/Login Required] These two passages "Amra and the Skateboard" and "A Day on the Slopes" share the common theme of trying new things. Question sets are provided for each passage separately and combined.

[Free Registration/Login Required] The paired passages "Taken by Surprise" and "Finding Salinger" share the common theme of change. Question sets are provided for each passage separately and combined.

[Free Registration/Login Required] The paired passages "A Winter's Drive" and "Back Roads" share the common themes of road trips. Question sets are provided for each passage separately and combined.

[Free Registration/Login Required] The paired passages "Brown Onions" and "Learning to Skate" share the theme of father-daughter relationships. Question sets are provided for each passage separately and combined.

[Free Registration/Login Required] The paired passages "Magic in the Classroom" and "Jumping Bodies" share the theme of magic. Question sets are provided for each passage separately and combined.

[Free Registration/Login Required] The paired passages "I Don't Like Ron Gonzales" and "See If I Care" each have a narrator with a very distinct voice. Question sets are provided for each passage separately and combined.

[Free Registration/Login Required] The paired passages "Streetcar!" and "World's Greatest Robot" explore the nature of sibling relationships. Question sets are provided for each passage separately and combined.

[Free Registration/Login Required] The paired passages "Partial Eclipse" and "Field Trip" share the theme of astronomy. Question sets are provided for each passage separately and combined.

[Free Registration/Login Required] The paired passages "Flying Blind" and "Nighttime in Texas" are both suspenseful. Question sets are provided for each separately and combined.

[Free Registration/Login Required] The paired passages "Jam Session" and "Shawn the Speedy Snail" share the theme of personal change brought about by experience. Question sets are provided for each set separately and combined.

This site, geared toward English as a Second Language students, provides "A Life-Saving Cow" as a reading exercise and audio translation. Multiple choice questions, vocabulary practice, close exercises, crosswords, closed questions,...