Read Works
Read Works: Genre 2nd Grade Unit: Encyclopedias
[Free Registration/Login Required] A instructional activity in which students use the book Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia edited by Jayne Parsons to learn to locate information and find facts about a subject in an encyclopedia....
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Web Lesson: Get the Idea
Read through a lesson about main ideas and supporting details to understand their importance. Practice choosing the main idea of three nonfiction paragraphs. Features practice activities to enhance learning.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Enlightening Explorations, Part Iii
This lesson contains the following labs: Rainbows, Refraction with Prisms, and What Color Is It? Students will study light by reading various nonfiction texts and viewing a video lesson. Then students will engage in the following labs:...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: History/social Studies: Adapting and Modifying Sources
This interactive demonstrates how a piece of primary source text can be adapted or modified for readers at different levels of proficiency in order to ensure their understanding.
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Corwin Press: Chapter 7: Informational Text Lessons in First Grade
This chapter provides guided informational text lessons for first graders. Differentiation and management tips are provided, along with steps to use while implementing these lessons.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Vocabulary Magic
Using the book Farmer Duck, this lesson will take words that are unknown to students and teach students how to determine their meanings. This will help open up the world of reading to students.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Evaluate the Strength of Evidence [Pdf]
This resource provides a downloadable worksheet that will assist students after they read a piece of nonfiction. Students will answer guided questions to help them determine the strength of evidence used when supporting a claim....
CommonLit
Common Lit: Stalin: A Brutal Legacy Uncovered
A learning module that begins with A Brutal Legacy Uncovered" by Mike Kubic, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Why Do We Hate Love?
A learning module that begins with "Why Do We Hate Love?" by Robert Firestone, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Serving in Florida: Excerpt From Nickle and Dimed
A learning module that begins with "Serving in Florida" Excerpt from Nickle and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Excerpt From the Prince
A learning module that begins with " Excerpt from The Prince" by Niccolo Machiavelli, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through...
CommonLit
Common Lit: "Three Types of Friendship" Excerpt From the Nicomachean Ethics
A learning module that begins with "Three Types of Friendship"--Excerpt from the Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF...
CommonLit
Common Lit: The Curse of the Inability to Imagine
A learning module that begins with "The Curse of the Inability to Imagine" by Tania Lombrozo, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
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Common Lit: America's Shifting Views on Immigration
A learning module that begins with "America's Shifting Views on Immigration" by Mike Kubic, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
CommonLit
Common Lit: On Revenge
A learning module that begins with "On Revenge" by Sir Francis Bacon, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and...
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Common Lit: "The Bill of Rights" by James Madison
A learning module that begins with "The Bill of Rights" by James Madison, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Political Society
A learning module that begins with "Political Society" by John Locke, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and...
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Common Lit: Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
A learning module that begins with "Fugitive Slave Act of 1793" by The United States Congress, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Lobo, the King of Currumpaw
A learning module that begins with "Lobo, the King of Currumpaw" by Ernest Seton Thompson, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
CommonLit
Common Lit: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: Excerpt From Ch. 1
A learning module that begins with "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: Excerpt from Ch. 1" by Frederick Douglass, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be...
CommonLit
Common Lit: The Space Race Is Over
A learning module that begins with "The Space Race Is Over" by Paul Kingsnorth, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
CommonLit
Common Lit: "The Life of Julius Caesar" by David White
A learning module that begins with "The Life of Julius Caesar" by David White, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
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Common Lit: Introduction to the Vietnam War
A learning module that begins with "Introduction to the Vietnam War" by USHistory.org, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through...
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Common Lit: Death Marches in the Holocaust
A learning module that begins with "Death Marches in the Holocaust" by The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF...