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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: "Act Your Age" by Colleen Archer

For Students 3rd - 5th
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Walnuts and Watermelons

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Aly's Discovery

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Dragonfly

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story, article, or poem is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words...
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Earth Day Birthday

For Students 3rd - 4th
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Amphibians

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Wind, Water, Stone

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story, poem, or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words...
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Eating Together

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story, article or poem is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words...
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Why Does No One Ever Thank Me for the Magna Carta?

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Columbus and the Egg

For Students 4th - 5th
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Blizzard

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story, poem, or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words...
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Article
Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: "Gift of the Magi" Literary Terms

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This article focuses on literary terms for the "Gift of the Magi" including the narrator, characters, climax, repetition, resolution, setting, irony, theme, and symbolism.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: The Yo Yo

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Brendan who learned that it is always better to share his toys. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: The New Scooter

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Matt who learned that it is always better to share his toys. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: It's Opening Day

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Matthew and his experience at opening day with his favorite baseball team. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Unit Plan
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Thinking Skills

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this self-guided course, you will be looking at several pieces of literature in many different forms. This unit will teach you some principles of thinking and learning and how to use basic literary terms in the analysis of literature....
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Handout
Other

University of North Carolina: Glossary of Literary Terms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is provided for by the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Over forty literary terms defined by college students, each with thorough examples.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Training for the Presidency [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
"Training for the Presidency" is a one-page, fictional, reading passage about Abraham Lincoln as a child. He does chores for a farmer because the book he had borrowed from him had gotten wet when rain came through the cabin walls. It is...
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Main Idea, Main Idea Test

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Terms associated with main idea are included on this assessment. This test assesses the following text feature terms: central idea, main idea, details, supporting details, summarizing, interesting detail, conclusion, topic, subject, and...
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Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: Main Idea, Main Idea Flashcards

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Terms related to main idea are included in this review exercise. Interactive vocabulary flashcards are provided for the following words: main idea, central idea, interesting detail, subject, topic, support, supporting detail, theme, and...
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Interactive
Quizlet

Quizlet: To Kill a Mockingbird Theme Quotes

For Students 9th - 10th
A set of 34 flashcards about thematic elements in To Kill a Mockingbird. Play games, match definitions, and take a quiz to learn. Registration may be required to access some resources.
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Unit Plan
Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Informational Text: Determine Central Ideas and Supporting Details

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Read a short informational text and determine the main idea and supporting details. Click to check your answers then click on Practice.
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Lesson Plan
A to Z Teacher Stuff

A to Z Teacher Stuff: Summary, Note Taking, Main Idea & Details

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A to Z Teacher Stuff offers a lesson, submitted by a teacher, using different sized post-it notes to discuss summarizing, note taking, main idea, and details. RI.11-12.2 Central IdeaS/Anal/Summ
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Unlocking Symbolism/themes in Drama

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Online activity which uses Hansberry's "Raisin in the Sun" to teach the concepts of symbolism and theme in a dramatic work. Students learn the importance and significance of these terms as they study this work and other works of drama....