Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Connecting With Reading

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A brief slideshow that identifies and defines the ways that readers can make connections while reading a text (Text to Self, Text to Text and Text to World) and instructions about annotating while reading. Includes a worksheet that...
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Grade 2: Four Lesson Unit: Drawing Conclusions

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Designed to teach students to identify the difference between explicit information and conclusions and to make text-to-self and text-to-text connections. Lessons are based on the provided text "The...
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Making Connections & Applications: Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review the reading strategy of making connections. An explanation of the strategy is given, along with examples of how to make text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world connections.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Popular Culture: Book Excerpts

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on making connections with the text including text to self, text to text, and text to world. It provides links to book excerpts from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Twilight by Stephenie Meyer and information...
Graphic
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Connection Web

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This graphic organizer helps students link supporting details to connections such as text-to-text, text-to-self, text-to-world. It can be used as a reading strategy or a prewriting strategy.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Literature & Composition: Self Selected Drama

For Students 9th - 10th
This unit focuses on the students selecting a play to read and study from an extensive list provided. A link to key drama terms is provided. Student read and respond to their selected text, learn the vocabulary, and take a quiz.
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Other

Reading and Writing Project: Oral Reading Benchmark [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Reading and Writing Project provides a benchmark document for oral reading to help assess students word recognition and comprehension abilities.
Professional Doc
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Independent Reading Protocols

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
During independent reading, students read independently from either a self- or teacher-selected text and then react to the text in their learning logs using one of three protocols.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: News Debate: Religion on Display

For Teachers 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text debating whether or not schools should be allowed to display the 10 Commandments. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Realism: "To Build a Fire" by Jack London

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the short story "To Build a Fire" by Jack London which provides a good example of Naturalism, the relationship between man and nature. It features links to a PDF study guide and an online copy of the text. After...
Unit Plan
Education Development Center

Tune in to Learning: Scanning for Specifics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Self-scoring interactive lesson for improving skills in scanning informational texts and charts for keywords and specific details.
Unit Plan
Education Development Center

Tv411: Tune in for Reading: Reading: Strategies for Better Reading

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
Self-checking interactive tutorial puts reading comprehension skills to work by asking learners to make inferences, predict what happens next, and identify the main ideas in a series of short reading passages. Related materials include...
Website
Art Institute of Chicago

Modern Collection: Vincent Van Gogh Self Portrait, 1887

For Students 9th - 10th
Click to enlarge Van Gogh's self-portrait from 1886-87, and read the paragraph of text explaining his methods.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Picture Books to Teach Plot Development and Confict Res.

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Students read picture books to explore the concepts of plot development and conflict resolution. They first learn about the connections between reading and writing, and then revise their own writing. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.4
Activity
University of Virginia Library

Prism: On Self Knowledge

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read Kahlil Gibran's "On Self-Knowledge" and highlight details that are sacred in blue and details that are secular in red. When finished, click save to see how others marked the text as well.
Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "The Outsiders" by S. E. Hinton

For Students 9th - 10th
Selected (9) reading passages (grades 7-11) to pair with the coming-of-age novel "The Outsiders" by S. E. Hinton. Ponyboy Curtis, a member of the Greaser gang, learns the value of family and friendship through his conflict with a rival...
Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Grendel" by John Gardner

For Students 9th - 10th
Selected (6) reading passages (grades 9-11) to pair with "Grendel" by John Gardner. [Free account registration required for specific tools.]
Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

For Students 9th - 10th
Selected (9) reading passages (grades 9-11) to pair with "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro. After decades of striving to be the perfect butler, Stevens embarks on a drive through postwar England that prompts him to reflect on...
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McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill Global Education: Implied Main Idea, Exercise 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Take this five-question self-correcting quiz to test your understanding of the implied main idea.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Lit: American Romanticism: Nathaniel Hawthorne

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on Nathaniel Hawthorne and his short story "The Minister's Black Veil." It features background information about Hawthorne and the short story, reading questions, the five stages of grief, a link to the text, and a...
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Realism: "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Harte

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the short story "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Harte who uses stereotypical but realistic characters to invent the culture of the "Old West." This story is an example of Regionalism, a sbu-genre of Realism....
Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Alter Egos

For Students 7th - 8th
Can a person have two selves? Beyonce is also known as Sasha Fierce; Clark Kent, the newspaper reporter, transforms into Superman. The idea that a person can have "another self" is a relatively new concept. As you read about the concept...
Online Course
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Sociology: Socialization

For Students 9th - 10th
Sociology instructional unit on socialization. Students learn theories about human behavior and self development through audio, text, and instructional activities. Links to supplemental reading.
eBook
McMaster University

Beowulf in Hypertext: Introduction Hwaet!

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives facts about the original Beowulf manuscript, its authorship, and its ties to archeology and culture. One may also read Beowulf in Old English or its translation to Modern English along with summaries of text portions and...

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