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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: 103 Things to Do Before/during/after Reading

For Students K - 1st Standards
The highly-respected Reading Rockets program offers both teachers and students a toolkit of ways to connect more actively with the materials they read. Some of these techniques are specifically for fiction-reading, others are designed...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: "Learning to Read" by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

For Students 5th - 6th
A learning module that begins with the poem "Learning to Read" by Francis Ellen Watkins Harper, 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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Read Works

Read Works: Ancient China: Travel Journal Part 3

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage contains a journal that recounts travel observations of ancient Chinese warrior terracotta statues in Xi'an, China. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential...
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Read Works

Read Works: Ancient China: Travel Journal Part 4

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational passage contains a brief history of the Great Wall of China. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Pictures and Text Work Together Too!

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
The class will read the informational text "Together They Were Better". As the teacher reads the book aloud, she/he will use the illustrations from each page to give students clues as to the text on the page, helping them to see the...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Un Explores Native American Rights in u.s.

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with Michel Martin's interview "UN Explores Native American Rights in U.S." accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: A Description of a City Shower

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with "A Description of a City Shower" by Jonathan Swift, 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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CommonLit

Common Lit: Opposition to the Women's Rights Movement

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with "Opposition to the Women's Rights Movement" 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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CommonLit

Common Lit: "Why Sit Here and Die" Speech

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with "'Why Sit Here and Die' Speech," by Maria W. Stewart, 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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CommonLit

Common Lit: Excerpt From Honky

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with "Excerpt from Honky" by Dalton Conley, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Excerpts From We

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
A learning module that begins with "Excerpts from We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: The Fallacy of Success

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with "The Fallacy of Success" by G. K. Chesterton, 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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CommonLit

Common Lit: Dreams

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with "Dreams" by Linda Pastan, 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 student...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Thresholds of Violence

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with "Thresholds of Violence" by Malcolm Gladwell, 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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CommonLit

Common Lit: Testimony Before the Senate Hearings on the Equal Rights Amendment

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with "Testimony Before the Senate Hearings on the Equal Rights Amendment" by Gloria Steinem, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Sweat

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with "Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston, 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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CommonLit

Common Lit: The Pit and the Pendulum

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe, 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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CommonLit

Common Lit: "Three Types of Friendship" Excerpt From the Nicomachean Ethics

For Students 11th - 12th
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...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Because I Could Not Stop for Death

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson, 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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CommonLit

Common Lit: From "The World Before Him"

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "From The World Before Him" by Horatio Alger, Jr., 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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CommonLit

Common Lit: "Teaching Shakespeare in a Maximum Security Prison" by Michel Martin

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with "Teaching Shakespeare in a Maximum Secruity Prison" by Michel Martin, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: "The Great Depression" by Mike Kubic

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with "The Great Depression" 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 teacher...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: We Shall Overcome Speech

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "We Shall Overcome Speech" by President Lyndon B. Johnson, 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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CommonLit

Common Lit: The New Survivors

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "The New Survivors" by Pamela Weintraub, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher...