[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a girl named Debra who goes through her Nana's house and remembers her childhood. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

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[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about making new friends. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a cat who likes to go hunting at night. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about girl named Julie who had an odd dream. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a girl named Casey who worked on the set for the school play but ended up doing a lot more. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a girl named Alexis whose friend was not honest with her. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about Captain Redbeard who tries to follow a map to hidden treasure but runs into some problems along the way. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about two brothers who were auditioning for the same part at a casting call. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a girl named Lin and her first week at a new school. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This literary passage personifies a chicken and his life in the chicken pen. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also included....

Click through a book to read and view illustrations of the story "Cinderella." Click the links below the book to open word documents with additional activities focusing on the characters, setting, sequencing, illustrations, line...

This is a short story or novel fact sheet offered as a Word document or a PDF. It includes places for title; author; URL; list of important nouns, verbs, phrases, and clauses; setting (includes definition); characterization (including...

Students will increase reading and writing proficiency and heighten interest in reading through this Reading Buddy program. During this two-week unit each middle school student will use technology tools to create an original holiday...

This strategy helps students refine their understanding of texts to meet reading expectations, engage in group conversations to meet speaking and listening expectations, and prepare for writing about texts.

A lesson plan in which students read two narrative texts and complete graphic organizers to compare and contrast the texts. Materials are included.

Comic frames are traditionally used to illustrate a story in a short, concise format. In this activity, young scholars use a six-paneled comic strip frame to create a story map, summarizing a book or story that they have read. Each panel...

Self-derected learning paths covering the literary devices in To Kill a Mockingbird.

Recognize and explain the purpose of understatement and overstatement in a text.

A fourteen-part learning module on literary terms including links to text, videos, word lists and images on literary terms such as plot, setting, character, point of view, style, theme, and more.

This is a teacher demonstrating and discussing teaching students poetic elements: learning the literary terms, their definitions, and how to apply the information when analyzing poetry.

A test with five matching questions and 4 multiple choice questions over the following literary terms: prediction, inference, suspense, foreshadowing, character, character traits, motivation, denotation, and connotation.

Eight flashcards on literary terms including: prediction, inference, suspense, foreshadowing, character, character traits, motivation, denotation, and connotation.

Sometimes teaching students about creating definitions is difficult because they do not understand about multiple meanings or depth in meaning. This is a chance to teach students, using the concept map included, how to create definitions...