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Common Lit: Book Pairings: "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

For Students 9th - 10th

Selected (11) reading passages (grades 8-11) to pair with "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver. This story follows the wife and four daughters of a Baptist preacher who moves them to the Belgian Congo in 1959, setting the...

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Daily Teaching Tools: Customizable Graphic Organizers

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a series of graphic organizers for reading students. Forms are provided for plot, character analysis, reading logs, and reading responses.

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Read Works: Seraphic Melody

For Students 8th

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read an autobiographical account of the narrator's discovery of a type of music he never knew existed. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

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Read Works: A Small Life

For Teachers 4th

[Free Registration/Login Required] This short story shares a fictional account from the perspective of a hamster. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...

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Read Works: A Tale of Segregation: Fetching Water

For Teachers 4th - 6th

[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares a first person account of experiencing the hatred related to segregation while in desperate need of water. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential...

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Read Works: My Travel Journal in China: Day 5

For Teachers 3rd Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage gives a first person account of a person's visit to the Forbidden City in China. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary...

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Read Works: Coming to America: Ellis Island and New York City

For Teachers 9th - 10th

[Free Registration/Login Required] This full text is borrowed from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and provides information about the history of Ellis Island and the first person account of the immigration experience....

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Find Law: u.s. Supreme Court: u.s. V. Butler (1936)

For Students 9th - 10th

This Supreme Court case dealt with provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act conflicting with the Federal Constitution. Read the complete text of the court's opinions and decision. Registration for a free Findlaw account may be...

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Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Night of the Blizzard One Teacher's Story [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th

A reader's theater script of blizzard story co-written by Mary Evans Andrews, a free-lance writer, and a former early 1900's teacher, "Miss Lydia", is provided on these pages. Ten character roles are needed in this activity. Reading...

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Common Lit: What Is Antarctica?

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards

CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...

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Common Lit: Where Did I Come From

For Students 5th - 6th Standards

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Common Lit: Women in Ancient Rome

For Students 5th - 7th Standards

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Common Lit: "Woman Who Helped Anne Frank Dies at 100 by Teri Schultz, Npr

For Students 5th - 6th

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Common Lit: Workers' Rights and the History of Labor Unions

For Students 7th - 8th Standards

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Common Lit: "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein

For Students 5th - 7th

CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or poem is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see the...

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Common Lit: Women in the Civil Rights Movement

For Students 7th - 8th Standards

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Common Lit: Years After the Funeral

For Students 7th - 8th

CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each text is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see the...

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