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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Point of View Worksheets

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
The learning module provides numerous drills via worksheet and video lesson links that cover different grade bands and text levels. Each exercise includes excerpts from famous works of literature and famous authors.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: It's Great to Be Me!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson addresses the similarities and differences among people. Incorporating the literature of Eric Carle and a virtual field trip focusing on healthy habits and the five senses, students will have a greater sense of their...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club

For Teachers 9th
We will read The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan and a series of related literary and informational texts to explore the question: How does a greater understanding of a person's life experiences change our perception of them? We will express...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Book Files: The Giver

For Students 9th - 10th
Lois Lowry's, "The Giver", is an Newbery Award novel. Themes of "The Giver" are diversity, freedom, connections, choice, individuality, honesty, and family. Make the smart choice by reading the novel with a BookFiles reading guide. The...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 7: The Giver

For Teachers 7th Standards
Seventh graders consider how individual perspectives are shaped by knowledge and memory. Through the study of dystopian literature and related texts, 7th graders will explore common themes, characters, and contrasting points of view....
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Poetry Foundation

Poetry Foundation: Dream in Color: A Guide for Middle School Teachers [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Visit this resource to find a wealth of poems, lesson plans, and classroom activities to help middle school students discover the diversity in African American poets and create their own voice in poetry. This resource is in PDF form.
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Other

World of Education: Cultural Learning Styles

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learning style and culture - what's the link? This article provides a summary of learning styles theory and the literature on learning style and culture correlations.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Christopher Paul Curtis

For Students 3rd - 8th
Find out more about the award-winning author Christopher Paul Curtis when you explore this site. This resource provides biographical information, a booklist, and an interview transcript.
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Other

Book Club Lesson Plan: The Watsons Go to Birmingham

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Explore this comprehensive book club lesson plan for "The Watsons Go to Brimingham-- 1963," by Christopher Paul Curtis.
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HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: A Thousand Paper Cranes

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This historical fiction lesson plan is for students reading Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr, in which they can discuss the tragedy of Hiroshima and its impact as well as other themes.
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abcteach

Abcteach: A Worksheet: Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This worksheet is a terrific resource for busy teachers. You can print it out to give to your students reading "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr.
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Other

The Dream Flag Project

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This creative and collaborative project is centered around the poetry of Langston Hughes, and incorporates art, multi-cultural ideas, and student performance. The site is full of examples, information, lessons and explanation.
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University of Chicago

University of Chicago Library: Teaching the Middle East: Writing: Before Islam

For Students 9th - 10th
Learning module considers the writing systems and literature of ancient Mesopotamia before the arrival of Christianity or Islam.
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Other

Personal: Sigmund Freud's Theories

For Students 9th - 10th
Description of the main tennents of Freud's theories. Author gives his personal criticism of these theories. Interesting site because of perspectives given.
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Time

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this self-guided unit, you will be working with literature which is centered on the themes of past, present and future. You will experience several different literary perceptions of the past and the future by reading ancient...
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Other

Widener University: The Nat Turner Project

For Students 9th - 10th
The Nat Turner Project is a digital archive of primary source materials related to the Nat Turner Slave Rebellion, beginning with the experiences and living conditions of slaves prior to the revolt. The archive houses newspaper articles,...
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Utah State University

Teacher Link: Letters From Rifka

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This site features an interdisciplinary lesson plan for the book "Letters from Rifka" by Karen Hesse. Discover how this twelve year old girl's struggle to get to America from Russia.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts, Grade 12: Undaunted Courage

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Students explore ideas prominent throughout westward expansion and American literature: myth versus reality. The texts present various perspectives of the West. Students consider the idealism and romance of the American spirit versus the...
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Culture of Honduras

For Students 9th - 10th
Experience Honduran culture at this site offered by Wikipedia. Learn about the music, literature, art, religion, cuisine, and family life of this diverse culture.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Collaborating, Writing, Linking: Use Wiki to Tell Stories Online

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This instructional activity has students create stories that reflect wiki kind of reading. Students begin by reading untraditional books that use fragmented storylines, multiple perspectives, and unresolved plots. They apply these same...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Workshop 2: Making Writing Meaningful

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Workshop 2 demonstrates how teachers use authentic sources and topics to prompt students to write about things that matter to them, subjects that relate to their lives, relationships, and communities. The topic may be the students -...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Literary Visions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A series of 24 instructional videos, each about 30 minutes in length, designed to teach literary analysis. Topics include Responding to Literature, The Elements of Short Fiction, Tone and Style in Short fiction, The Elements of Poetry,...
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Teachers.net

Teachers.net: Lesson Exchange for Corduroy

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site is an online lesson plan exchange on "Corduroy" by Don Freeman.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Becoming Visible: Saul Bellow

For Students 9th - 10th
Jewish American author Saul Bellow is featured in this biography identifying his literary contributions and his manner of drawing on the weaknesses of humanity. See "Saul Bellow Activities" for related materials.