Quizlet
Quizlet: Literary Elements Definitions
Learn about 32 different literary elements with flashcards, quizzes, and interactive games.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Literary Text: Close Reading of Prose: Practice 2
This activity focuses on close reading, the careful, sustained reading of a text. One strategy to help you read closely is to ask yourself questions such as What is your overall impression of the passage? What mood does the passage...
Other
Wisewire: Grades 9 10 Playlist: Analyze How an Author Unfolds an Argument
This is an example of how to analyze how an author unfolds an argument. It provides an example and links to use for practice. RI.9-10.3 author unfolds
Other
Ncrel: Reading Strategies: Before, During, and After [Pdf]
This page provides a detailed chart to aid students' understanding of texts. It goes through the steps of pre-reading, during reading, and after reading, outlining what students should be thinking about as they interact with a text. This...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Literary Text: Close Reading of Poetry: Practice 3
This lesson will help you comprehend the poet's meaning by giving you practice in finding imagery, metaphors, symbolism, and allusions.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: 6.1 Writing About Literature: Analyzing Prose
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn to analyze prose by understanding connotation and denotation, identifying metaphors and similes, looking for repetition, and finding imagery in a text.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Book Pairings
Teaching a book unit this year? It's a best practice to supplement book units with short passages from a variety of different genres. These 92 reading passages were handpicked by master teachers to supplement your book units. They...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Reading With Cups, and More! [Pdf]
In this lesson, students will explore how music and language arts naturally overlap to promote literacy as they cultivate their creative and critical thinking.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Author: William Shakespeare
This site features the author William Shakespeare including a biography and the full text of 39 of his famous plays. RL.9-10.10a&b text complexity, RL.11-12.10a/b Text Complexity
Virginia Tech
Pixel: Fiction and Nonfiction Reading and Organizing
Short summary of different skills involved in reading fiction vs. non-fiction. Includes study tips and an organizational guide to use when reading.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Cambridge History of Eng and Am Lit: Later National Literature: P2
This encyclopedia, "The Cambridge History of English and American Literature" provided by Bartleby.com, includes information of regionalism in poetry located in section X 'Later Poets'. Check out 1.Poets of East and West 5. The Middle...
Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: Voice
Thirteen day poetry unit plan provided by The Academy of American Poets designed for ninth or tenth grade students. Contains individual lessons on spoken poetry, written poetry, poetry as social commentary, and voice. Each lesson...
Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: Songs My Teacher Taught Me
Twenty day poetry unit plan provided by The Academy of American Poets. Contains three thematic sections: "What is Poetry?", "Poems of Childhood," and "Self and Society." Each section contains a reading list, introduction, analytical...
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: Literary Resources on the Net
Extensive listing of literary links on the Internet, grouped into categories. Useful for general browsing through a category.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Literary Elements in Literature
This lesson is applicable to any story or novel in literature. The students will be introduced to twelve literary elements through a podcast. They will then be divided into small groups to complete activities involving story and literary...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Pov Collection
POV (a cinema term for "point of view") is television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. POV premieres 14-16 of the best, boldest and most innovative programs every year on PBS. Since 1988, POV has presented...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Annotating Text
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of texts to meet reading expectations and prepare for writing about texts.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Written Assignment Sessions
In this lesson, students read a scientific article, answer a quiz about it, then write a summary.
Los Poetas
Los Poetas: Nezahualcoyotl
Read the biography of the Mexican poet Nezahualcoyotl and his poems.
Los Poetas
Los Poetas: Ignasio Mauel Altamiro
Read the biography of the Mexican poet Ignasio Mauel Altamiro and his poems.
Los Poetas
Los Poetas: Amado Nervo
Read the biography of the Mexican poet Amado Nervo and his poems.
Los Poetas
Los Poetas: Manuel Acuna
Read the biography of the Mexican poet Manuel Acuna and his poems.
Los Poetas
Los Poetas: Evaristo Ribera Chevremont
Read the biography of the Puerto Rican poet Evaristo Ribera Chevremont and his poems.
Los Poetas
Los Poetas: Duque De Rivas
Read the poems and biography of the Spanish poet Duque de Rivas.