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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Snowflake Bentley as a Framing Text for Multigenre Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Using Snowflake Bentley as a model, students create a working definition of multigenre text and then use that definition to create their own multigenre piece about winter or another theme.
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Read Works

Read Works: Planet Y

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Zack who is traveling to a new planet with his family. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Georgetown University

Georgetown University: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 1849)

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This site is a professor's guide for students. This guide features information on how to distinguish between Poe and his narrators in his stories.
Website
Other

Native American Bedtime Story Collection

For Students 3rd - 5th
This site provides eleven short stories based on different Native American stories. Stories from different tribes such as Navajo and Lakota.
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Read Works

Read Works: Earth 2072

For Teachers 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text describing what school might be like in the future. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Website
Rutgers University

Rutgers University: Literary Resources on the Net

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Extensive listing of literary links on the Internet, grouped into categories. Useful for general browsing through a category.
Interactive
English Club

English Club: Vocabulary: Cloze Games: Arts 5

For Students 5th - 8th
Choose from a word bank to complete ten sentences about terms related genres found in film and fiction. Hints are available if needed, and a percentage score is displayed once answers are submitted.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Black Ear, Blond Ear

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this online book from the International Children's Digital Library, relations between the blonde cats and the black cats, who live on different sides of the river, learn about each other when they exchange ears.
eBook
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Blue Sky

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this online book from the International Children's Digital Library, a sad and lonely little girl dreams of seeing her mother again as she watches the clouds in the sky.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "Rangering" by Andy Adams

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "Rangering" by Andy Adams, an American author in the genre of western fiction. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "A Question of Possession" by Andy Adams

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the short story "A Question of Possession" by Andy Adams, an American author in the genre of western fiction. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Comprehension and Vocabulary Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is correlated to Houghton Mifflin Reading, Grade 2 and is a guideline for comprehension and vocabulary for Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night by Cynthia Rylant. Interactive vocabulary...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Nls: The Jalna Series by Mazo De La Roche

For Students 9th - 10th
An introduction to the Jalna series, "sixteen novels that tell the story of the Canadian Whiteoak family from 1854 to 1954." Read about this fictional family, learn what critics have said its content and author, Mazo de la Roche, and...
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Other

Haisln: Recommended Reading Lists

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Librarians from a group of independent schools in Houston, TX have chosen hundreds of books covering grade levels from Pre-K through 12, and genres from non-fiction to poetry to fiction. Each entry lists title, author, publisher and...
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Other

Haisln: Recommended Reading Lists

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Librarians from a group of independent schools in Houston, TX have chosen hundreds of books covering grade levels from Pre-K through 12, and genres from non-fiction to poetry to fiction. Each entry lists title, author, publisher and...
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Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: "Washington Square" Teacher Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"Washington Square" 36-page teacher guide features in-depth background materials, genre studies, suggested themes, and elements of fiction. Also includes discussion questions, vocabulary studies, post-reading activities, and group and...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Jules Vern

For Students 9th - 10th
French author and famous among the science-fiction genre.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Gothic

For Students 9th - 10th
An eleven-slide presentation that can be viewed online or downloaded. The slideshow explains the characteristics that make up gothic literature and gives several examples of gothic literary texts.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Discovering Ourselves in Literature and Life

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan, provided by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), encourages students to evaluate literature in a variety of multimedia formats and answer the question, "Who Am I?," Students are then asked to...
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Curated OER

Kit Pearson

For Students 3rd - 8th
Kit Pearson is a popular author of historical fiction for children, as well as other genres. Her site has descriptions of her books and biographical information.
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Curated OER

Kit Pearson

For Students 3rd - 8th
Kit Pearson is a popular author of historical fiction for children, as well as other genres. Her site has descriptions of her books and biographical information.
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Curated OER

Kit Pearson With Poppy and Piper, 2007

For Students 3rd - 8th
Kit Pearson is a popular author of historical fiction for children, as well as other genres. Her site has descriptions of her books and biographical information.

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