Students learn how to walk a mile in someone else's shoes by reading historical fiction about the Underground Railroad. This is a lengthy unit of four lessons that spans thirty lesson periods where students examine characteristics of...

Good printable historical fiction book report form. Highlights the era as well helping students distinguish between fictional and true historical figures.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A unit of instruction in which students use the book Meet Addy: An American Girl by Connie Porter to learn about the characteristics that define historical fiction. Lesson includes direct teaching,...

This historical fiction book, winner of a 2006 Newbery Honor for children's books, is perfect for girls graduating from the Little House on the Prairie series. Author Kirby Larson based this tale on her own great-grandmother's...

To prepare for reading a historical novel, such as A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck, Countdown by Deborah Wiles, Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos, or The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon, students research various aspects of a...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Historical fiction about a boy named Ulrich living in Amsterdam in 1940 and his Jewish friends who stop coming to school. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A historical fiction text about a boy named Johnny who is looking for a job on the docks in April of 1850. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in understanding setting.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A historical fiction text about a girl named Patience who is traveling with her family to clear land and make a new home. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in understanding...

"Potawatomi Prairie" is a one page, historical fiction, reading passage about the Potawatomi tribe and what their life may have been like during the different seasons of the year. It is followed by questions which require students to...

The full texts to Twain's lesser-known works can be accessed from this site such as "Celebrated Jumping Frog" and "The Innocents Abroad." Read facsimiles of the original books or plain text versions.

"Lexington" is a one page, historical fiction, reading passage about soldiers fighting in the Revolutionary War. A soldier describes the feeling of being an American. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require...

"Prairie Farmers" is a one page, historical fiction, journal describing life for farmers in the prairie throughout the year. It shows the difficulties including bad weather and fires. It requires students to closely read the journal and...

"Columbus and the Egg" is a one page, historical fictional passage about Christopher Columbus's return to Spain after discovering America. Some people said anyone could sail the seas. Columbus used an egg to make a point. It is followed...

"His First Dollar" is a one-page, historical fiction passage in which Abraham Lincoln tells his Secretary of State Seward when and how he had earned his first dollar. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require...

"Columbus and the Egg" is a one page, historical fictional passage about Christopher Columbus's return to Spain after discovering America. Some people said anyone could sail the seas. Columbus used an egg to make a point. It is followed...

In the fall of 1939 the Nazis invaded Irene Gut's beloved Poland, ending her training as a nurse and thrusting the sixteen-year-old Catholic girl into a world of degradation that somehow gave her the strength to accomplish what amounted...

Eighteen-year-old Elli has a number tattooed onto her arm. It is an indelible remnant of a terrifying past a life lived, for many years, in the death camp of Auschwitz. When Elli arrives in New York City, she can not speak English, and...

Twelve-year-old Sumiko feels her life has been made up of two parts: before Pearl Harbor and after it. The good part and the bad part. Raised on a flower farm in California, Sumiko is used to being the only Japanese girl in her class....

The folk tale that a woman named Betsy Ross was the creator is still popular among Americans. In this short story, the possible events of Betsy Ross' creation of the first American flag are narrated from the perspective of a fellow...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on cause and effect where young scholars learn signal words to identify cause and effect relationships and then examine those relationships in historical fiction with Pink and Say by...

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Use strategies that help you make connections between a text and events that happened in the past, as well as events that are happening now.

This learning module provides remediation with identifying genre of books and various texts. Practice with capitalizing nouns is provided with through worksheets, an online site, and a video tutorial. .

Interaction and adventure draws high school and elementary school students together as they analyze stories about the Lewis and Clark expedition.

This workshop, which is divided into eight segments, teaches how to use primary source artifacts from a variety of genres to support the teaching and learning of specific pieces of literature. The genres include visual arts, political...