"A Garden in Lawndale" is a one page, non-fiction, reading passage about an eighth grade class who planted a garden in a vacant lot by their school and maintained it to improve their neighborhood. It is followed by constructed-response...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on comparing and contrasting through which students compare and contrast two non-fiction articles and two editorials, and write a compare and contrast essay. With free login, users...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Teachers will read "Digging Up Dinosaurs" using the close reading technique. Students will use graphic organizers to summarize the steps necessary to collect, study, and build a dinosaur skeleton.

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...

Middle schoolers will analyze interactions between ideas, events, and individuals by creating a graphic organizer. They will utilize "I Never Had it Made" by Jackie Robinson for this activity.

The Literature Network provides the text to two of Frederick Douglass's (1818-1895 CE) non-fictional works, along with the text to three of his essays.