ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Using Snowflake Bentley as a Framing Text for Multigenre Writing
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.
Read Works
Read Works: Planet Y
[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.
Georgetown University
Georgetown University: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 1849)
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.
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Native American Bedtime Story Collection
This site provides eleven short stories based on different Native American stories. Stories from different tribes such as Navajo and Lakota.
Read Works
Read Works: Earth 2072
[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.
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: Literary Resources on the Net
Extensive listing of literary links on the Internet, grouped into categories. Useful for general browsing through a category.
English Club
English Club: Vocabulary: Cloze Games: Arts 5
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Black Ear, Blond Ear
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Blue Sky
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.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Rangering" by Andy Adams
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.)
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "A Question of Possession" by Andy Adams
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.)
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Comprehension and Vocabulary Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night
[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...
Library of Congress
Loc: Nls: The Jalna Series by Mazo De La Roche
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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Haisln: Recommended Reading Lists
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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Haisln: Recommended Reading Lists
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...
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: "Washington Square" Teacher Guide [Pdf]
"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...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Jules Vern
French author and famous among the science-fiction genre.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Gothic
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.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Discovering Ourselves in Literature and Life
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...
Curated OER
Kit Pearson
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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Kit Pearson
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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Kit Pearson With Poppy and Piper, 2007
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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