A learning module that teaches students about using text features to guide reading in three mini lessons: Engaging with Text, Literary Think-Aloud, and Informational Think-Aloud. Download a PDF with lesson plans and printable handouts...

Contains plans for three lessons to improve reading comprehension using a visualizing strategy called sketch-to-stretch. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well...

Anticipating is an effective reading strategy for readers of all ages. Utilize this template and graphic organizer to help your students become better readers.

This strategy guide explains how you can employ peer review in your classroom, guiding students as they offer each other constructive feedback to improve their writing and communication skills.

Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, with historical information about the novel's Jazz Age setting, an author biography, and access to a radio program (audio plus transcript) of excerpts from the novel and analysis of its...

Contains plans for two lessons that examine different translations of "Beowulf" in order to study the nature of translation and examine the verse structure of the original text. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional...

Guide to Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, with historical information, author biography, discussion questions, and a ten-lesson unit of study with activities, assignments, project ideas, and essay topics. A radio show, with...

Contains plans for four to five 50-minute lessons about analyzing political cartoons. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains links to PDF handouts and links to sites used in the lessons as...

Guide to the poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including historical context, author biography, discussion questions, and a ten-lesson unit of study with discussion activities, homework assignments, and essay topics.

This instructional activity focuses on the how to approach the analysis of poetry. It provides a series of student activities such as having learners read and compare a draft and the final version of William Blake's "Tyger" which is...

Contains plans for eight lessons that ask students to put characters from a work of literature on trial. This lesson uses Shakespeare's "The Tempest" as an example, but this concept can be applied to other works as well. In addition to...

A description and guide to Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, with historical information, author biography, discussion questions, and a ten-lesson unit of study with activities, homework assignments, project ideas, and essay topics. A radio...

Guide to Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, with historical information, author biography, discussion questions, and a ten-lesson unit of study including activities, homework assignments, project ideas, and essay topics....

Guide to Carson McCullers' novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, with historical information, author biography, discussion questions, and a ten-lesson unit of study including activities, homework assignments, project ideas, and essay...

Contains plans for four 50-minute lessons that ask students to use their five senses for poetry prewriting. In addition to student objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the...

[Free Registration/Login Required] During this MEA simulation, kindergarten students will be deciding which type of bike will be best for a company to sell in their community. Students must work in cooperative groups as they determine...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will complete this reading guide for J.B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls as they read or as a reflective reading activity. Students will be able to analyze characters, the historical context,...

In the suburbs of Chicago, two teens named Will Grayson - one gay, one straight - have lived their lives completely unaware of the other's existence. But that changes one fateful night when their worlds collide. Their lives begin to...

Arguably Mark Twain's most famous novel - indeed, one of the greatest works of American literature - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn brings together two people from the lower rungs of society, an ill-educated boy escaping an abusive...

In this prequel to the first three volumes, readers meet young Quint long before his sky pirating days, as he becomes the apprentice to Linius Pallitax, the Most High Academe of Sanctaphrax. Shortly after his arrival, Quint is enlisted...

She was born with her eyes closed and a word on her tongue, a word she could not taste. Her name was Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, and she spent the first years of her life listening to her aunt's stories...

Use this lesson plan to delve into the exploration of character development in fiction through the novel "Bright Morning," by Scott O'Dell.

This lesson focuses on how to find, evaluate, and use primary and secondary sources using printed and online sources. It provides practice writing activities such as examining the same topic through primary and secondary sources and...

Teacher guide for Douglass's biography features 24 pages of chapter-by-chapter study questions, quotations, and activities. Valuable post-reading activities as well as methods for eliciting student responses also included. This is a .pdf...