PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Stage Props, Blocking, and Graphs
In this lesson, students will block a scene on a graph and act out the scene. Media resources and teacher materials are included.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Shakespeare Uncovered: Collection
Shakespeare Uncovered combines history, biography, iconic performances, new analysis, and the personal passions of its celebrated hosts to tell the stories behind the stories of Shakespeare's greatest plays. The Series 3 resources:...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Narrative Essay
Need help picking out the elements of a narrative? Check this site out from Capital Community College, and you'll see some background information, a sample essay, and directed questions to ask yourself about a text. W.9-10.3 Narrative,...
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library: Lesson Plans: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
Lesson plan useful to teachers of any of of Shakespeare's plays in which students retell a scene using only visuals.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "A Ramble in Aphasia" by O. Henry
Text of the short story "A Ramble in Aphasia" by O. Henry. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
Other
Critical reading.com: Drama
Discusses what the literary form of drama consists of in relation to its content, language, and structure.
Other
Dickinson College: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
An analysis of Samuel Coleridge's ideas on nature as is evident in his writings. Includes examples of his poetry.
Shakespeare Globe Trust
Shakespeare's Globe: Fact Sheet: Writing Plays
An article containing pictures, information, and additional resources about William Shakespeare and other playwrights of his time, what they wrote about, and the three types of plays at that time.
Emory University
Emory University: "As You Like It"
Clickable list of paintings inspired by scenes in Shakespeare's "As You Like It" with text.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Quotes From Coleridge
This site features 79 quotations taken from Coleridge's writings.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Cambridge History of Eng and Am Lit: Beginning of Verse, 1610 1808
Discussion of the earliest poetry in Colonial New England. Describes common themes and forms and identifies specific poets of the period.
Quia
Quia: Narrative Structure Elements
This reading resource provides vocabulary words with definitions. All words are related to the elements of narratives. A link to associated review activities is included.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Paraphrase / Retell
Learn how to paraphrase a text by using a list of guiding questions.
University of Victoria (Canada)
The U Vic Writer's Guide: Literary Term: Blank Verse
This brief site provides a definition of the term blank verse, a short description of its history, and an example of its use from a poem.
Fun Trivia
Fun Trivia: The Four Types of Writing Trivia Quiz
A fifteen-question quiz in which the reader identifies a type of writing for each situation: argumentation, exposition, narrative, or description. Correct answers are displayed once answers are submitted.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Poetry Analysis Tpcastt
11 slides demonstrating poetry analysis using the TPCASTT format: Title, Paraphrase, Connotation, Attitude, Shift, Title, Theme.
TES Global
Blendspace: Descriptive Writing
An eight-part learning module with links to websites, texts, videos, images, and charts to use while learning how to write descriptive texts.
TES Global
Blendspace: Drama
A learning module with eighteen links to web sites, videos, images, and texts about reading and writing dramas.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Poetry
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart provides an introduction to poetry terms, examples, and web links.
University of Pennsylvania
Digital Library Works of Christina Rossetti
This site provides the text to "Goblin Market" and "Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme" written by Christina Rossetti.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Romeo and Juliet
Resources for Romeo and Juliet consist of a summary, analysis of themes and characters, a list of questions, and teacher resources. Each of the Acts and Scenes are discussed in great detail. An excellent set of questions is also included.
Education Development Center
Tv411: Tune in for Reading: Reading: Strategies for Better Reading
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...
BBC
Bbc Bitesize Revision: Describing People
As part of a revision and writing section of BBC Bitesize focusing on specific forms of writing, this site discusses describing people as a type of descriptive writing.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Flashcards: Short Story Elements Exam Fall 2010
Do you need to learn about short story elements? This page offers flashcards with the terms and definitions available in audio, a list of the terms and definitions to read and study or click to have them read aloud, and links to related...