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Curated OER

Ccss Literacy E Handbook: Literature: Summarize

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
An explanation of summarizing a selection along with a link to a model summarizing activity.
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Quia

Quia: Character Terms

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Complete each sentence by typing the correct character word into each box in this ten-question quiz.
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Handout
University of Victoria (Canada)

The U Vic Writer's Guide: Literary Term: Bombast

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from The UVic Writer's Guide provides an excellent description of bombast language. Content includes a literary example.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Interpreting Literature Terms

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
A fourteen-part learning module on literary terms including links to text, videos, word lists and images on literary terms such as plot, setting, character, point of view, style, theme, and more.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Text Connections Pompeii in Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A fourteen-part learning module with links to texts, videos, and websites that demonstrate text connections through various texts about Pompeii.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Literature Circle Differention Using Web 2.0 Tools

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A fourteen-part learning module with links to websites for use with literature circles.
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Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Nonfiction Comprehension: Making Personal and Textual Connections

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
This is a lesson plan to help elementary students connect to nonfiction text as they read.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Note Taking for Social Studies

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers how to read a historical text and convert information into visual representations by taking notes. This strategy helps students to read a passage and determine the author's purpose.
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Website
E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: English Worksheets and Tests

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Downloadable worksheets and tests focusing on reading, figurative language, genre, language arts, point of view, and text structure for middle grades.
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Rubric
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Holt Assessment: Evaluating Nonfiction [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This one-page printable worksheet is designed for classroom use in evaluating a reading of nonfiction. The evaluation is set up in a rubric format.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Worksheet: Analyzing Nonfiction [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Use this graphic organizer to analyze the elements of nonfiction and how the ideas interact.
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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...
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Activity
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Reader Response Quest. To Focus and Reflect on Literature

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Daily Teaching Tools provides nineteen reading response prompts for fiction and six reading response prompts for nonfiction. W.11-12.9a Amer Lit 18th,19th, 20th cen/Analy
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Making Inferences (Nonfiction)

For Students 7th Standards
Match five words and definitions about making inferences in nonfiction texts by racing against the clock in this learning game.
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Interactive
Quizlet

Quizlet: Flash Cards: Vocabulary 1: Nonfiction

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
These interactive flashcards focuses on terms relating to nonfiction. These terms include the following: nonfiction, fiction, glossary, index, table of contents, headings, subheadings, caption, boldface, italicized, preface, sidebar, and...
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Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: Match Game: Vocabulary 1: Nonfiction

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
In this interactive game, students match terms relating to nonfiction with their definitions. These terms include the following: nonfiction, fiction, glossary, index, table of contents, headings, subheadings, caption, boldface,...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: The Elements of Nonfiction [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A short worksheet which allows students to improve their understanding of the elements of nonfiction literature. Provides eight questions and allows students to craft responses for a given literary text.
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Website
Other

Fun Lesson plans.com: Reading Lesson P Lans: Literature Circles

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Improve your students' reading comprehension with these free literature circle worksheets.
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Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic: Nonfiction Writing Lessons

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This series of nonfiction writing lessons was developed by Stuart Miller. Four activities include: Describing the Real World, The Interview, Writing a Profile, and Writing a Review.
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Handout
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Literature: Creating Character

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This article provides good insight into the creation of a character.