The Newberry Library
Newberry Library: Literature of the American Civil War
Learning module uses primary resources to take a look at the literature published during the Civil War and examines how it helped make sense of the war and the profound changes brought about.
The Newberry Library
Newberry: Shakespeare's the Tempest and Utopias of the European Renaissance
Newberry Library learning module uses primary source material of Shakespeare in a lesson on how Renaissance writers and artists portrayed European exploration of America. Students read excerpts from works of Renaissance literature to...
The Newberry Library
Newberry Library: The World of Don Quixote
Learning module using primary resources in which students explore how Cervantes' Don Quixote respond to the social conditions and literary traditions of early modern Spain.
Other
Read Print Publishing: Full Text Literature
Full text and free online versions of plays, essays, fiction, nonfiction, poetry and short stories. Search by favorite author or title and immediately find your text of choice.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Learning From the People Collection
The ECHO Collection provides rich, multi-disciplinary educational resources in science, literacy and language arts, fine art, and social studies. The combined skills, experience, and collections of our six institutions provide...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Using Features of Literary & Informational Text to Guide Reading
A learning module that teaches students about using text features to guide reading in three mini lessons: Engaging with Text, Literary Think-Aloud, and Informational Think-Aloud. Download a PDF with lesson plans and printable handouts...
Other
Potus: George Washington
Comprehensive information about the presidents of the United States Comprehensive site on the American presidency includes biographies, speeches and writings, election results, odd facts and presidency highlights.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Triumph of Nationalism: America, 1815 1850: Religion
A collection of nine primary resources including historical documents, literary texts, visual images, and maps illuminated and contextualized by notes, thematic questions, and text-specific discussion questions for classroom instruction...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Internet Classics Archive: Works of Plutarch
A list of the works of Plutarch that have been translated, each entry linked to complete text of that article and a discussion page.
California State University
Reading Strategies From the University of Waterloo
Brief and easy to read, this California State University Northridge site lists strategies for getting the most of your reading. Geared for reading texts and technical material.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: The Age
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
University of Groningen
American History: Essays: Philosophy and Literature: History and Literature
Discusses the state of literature and written history in the 1800s as they related to the development of a national identity, and the role Romanticism played. With the passage of time, more serious literature emerged and authors began to...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Use Easy Nonfiction to Build Background Knowledge
A Texas librarian shares his strategy of using nonfiction picture books to introduce new concepts to struggling adolescent readers and to build their background knowledge. Once students have been exposed to academic content in easy...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Seven Strategies to Teach Students Text Comprehension
Comprehension strategies are conscious plans - sets of steps that good readers use to make sense of text. Comprehension strategy instruction helps students become purposeful, active readers who are in control of their own reading...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Using Multiple Texts to Teach Content
Each of us, every day, has to contend with multiple messages or texts-in the news, over the Internet, in our workplace, in books, and in conversation. Making sense of these sometimes conflicting messages is critical. But without being...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Key Literacy Component: Text Comprehension
Text comprehension allows readers to extract or construct meaning from the written word. Students who misread words or misinterpret their meanings are at a disadvantage. Proper instruction can boost students' skills in this key area.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Lesson Plan for Nonfiction Comprehension: Skimming Text
Build comprehension by developing reading strategies for use with nonfiction text. This lesson focuses on teaching students to recognize text elements as clues to help them quickly locate key information in text.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Learn About South Africa [Pdf]
"Learn about South Africa" is a one page, nonfiction passage about South Africa and its fight to end the apartheid. It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes underlining the most...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Genre Worksheets
This learning module provides remediation with identifying genre of books and various texts. Practice with capitalizing nouns is provided with through worksheets, an online site, and a video tutorial. .
Digital Dialects
Digital Dialects: Chinese Language
Study a variety of fundamental phrases and vocabulary of the Chinese language. Improve recognition and understanding the terms with the help of online games.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Eclectic Elementary Geography by American Book Company
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Eclectic Elementary Geography by American Book Company (1883), an elementary geography textbook including maps, information about areas and people of the United...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Nonfiction Reading Strategy Assessment [Pdf]
This inventory provides questions to determine the habits that students use when reading nonfiction pieces. This inventory may be used at the beginning of the year or prior to beginning a unit that involves the reading of nonfiction texts.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Interpet History [Pdf]
Students will read about a historical event and then illustrate their interpretations. Questions are included to extend the students' comprehension of the events.
The English Teacher
The English Teacher: Teaching the Analysis of Non Fiction
A form used by an English teacher to help students understand and analyze nonfiction literature. Very helpful ways to classify information. It can be modified for different grade levels.