+
Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: "Mother and Daughter" by Gary Soto

For Students 5th - 7th
In this short story, a young girl's mother doesn't have the money to buy her a new dress for a school dance. As you read, take notes on Yollie and her mother's interactions. [Free account registration required for specific tools.]
+
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Stupendous Dodgeball Fiasco by Janice Repka

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
This instructional activity will lead students in relating literature to their own lives. The book, The Stupendous Dodgeball Fiasco, will be read aloud to students. Afterward, students will create short stories about things which they'd...
+
Primary
Open Library of the Internet Archive

Open Library: Very Little Tales for Very Little Children

For Students K - 1st
This ebook version of Unknown author's Very Little Tales For Very Little Children has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.
+
Primary
Open Library of the Internet Archive

Open Library: Sara Crewe: Or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's by Frances Burnett

For Students 4th - 5th
This ebook version of Frances Hodgson Burnett's Sara Crewe: Or, What Happened At Miss Minchin's has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be...
+
Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "Ahead of Schedule" by p.g. Wodehouse

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of the short story "Ahead of Schedule" by P.G. Wodehouse. A discussion of a system on how to get a woman.
+
Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The Aide De Camp" by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of the short story "The Aide-de-Camp" by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, an animated love story of the civil war.
+
Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "Akin to Love" by Lucy Maud Montgomery

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is the text of the short story "Akin To Love" by Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of the Anne of Green Gables series.
+
Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The Alchemist" by H. P. Lovecraft

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of the short story "The Alchemist" by H. P. Lovecraft, the story of a family curse.
+
Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "Alice and the Pigeon" by T. S. Arthur

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is the text of the short story "Alice and the Pigeon" by T. S. Arthur, a story of a little girl and her love for a pigeon on her window sill.
+
Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The Amateur" by Richard Harding Davis

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of the short story "The Amateur" by Richard Harding Davis, a story about an amateur detective asked to look for a young woman's missing husband in London.
+
Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The Ambassador's Pigeons" by Robert Barr

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of the short story "The Ambassador's Pigeons" by Robert Barr which follows Haziddin, the ambassador on his journey to the mysterious Baalbek.
+
Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "American Horses" by Melville Davisson Post

For Students 4th - 8th
This is the text of the short story "American Horses" by Melville Davisson Post, a mystery.
+
Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The Amethyst Comb" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is the text of the short story "The Amethyst Comb" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; it is part of her short story collection Copy Cat and Other Stories.
+
Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "Amy Foster" by Joseph Conrad

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of the short story "Amy Foster" by Joseph Conrad, a story of a poor immigrant from Central Europe sailing from Hamburg to America is shipwrecked off the coast of England. The residents of nearby villages, at first...
+
Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "Amy's Question" by T. S. Arthur

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is the text of the short story "Amy's Question" by T. S. Arthur; God made everything that is good and beautiful.
+
Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "An Accursed Race" by Elizabeth Gaskell

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of the novella "An Accursed Race" by Elizabeth Gaskell; a historical essay that deals with the tragic history of the Cagots, a European group of people who lived in Western France and Northern Spain, whose existence was...
+
Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Author: G. B. O'halloran

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a link to the full text of the short story "The Master of the 'Chrysolite'" by G. B. O'Halloran.
+
Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Author: Thomas Nelson Page

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses on the author Thomas Nelson Page by providing links to six of his short stories: "The Burial of the Guns," "The Gray Jacket of "No. 4"," "How the Captain Made Christmas," "Little Darby," "Miss Dangerlie's Roses," and...
+
Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Author: Andrew Barton Paterson

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses on the author Andrew Barton Paterson by providing links to the full text of the poetry collection, The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses and 18 short stories such as "The Amateur Gardener," "The Cat," "The Dog,"...
+
Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Author: Elia W. Peattie

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features links to the full text of 21 short stories by Elia W. Peattie such as "An Astral Onion," "A Child of the Rain," "A Grammatical Ghost," "The Room of the Evil Thought," "The Shape of Fear," "Their Dear Little Ghost" and...
+
Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Author: Frank Stockton

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers links to a biography of Frank Stockton and to 21 of his short stories including "The Lady or the Tiger?"
+
Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Author: Edward Stratemeyer

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site offers links to the full text of two novels and 12 short stories for young readers including the "Rover Boys" series.
+
Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Author: Netta Syrett

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author Netta Syrett and provides a link to her short story "Thy Heart's Desire." published in The Yellow Book in 1894.
+
Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Author: Henry Van Dyke

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses on Henry Van Dyke and his short stories; it provides links to the full text of 10 of his short stories including "The Blue Flower", "The First Christmas-Tree", and "The Other Wise Man".