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CommonLit

Common Lit: Eating in Silence

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
A learning module that begins with "Eating in Silence" by Pamela Huber, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Dust of Snow

For Students 5th - 6th
A learning module that begins with "Dust of Snow" by Robert Frost, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Most Valuable Player

For Students 5th - 6th
A learning module that begins with "Most Valuable Player" by Sarah Van Arsdale, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: The Border: A Double Sonnet

For Students 5th - 6th
A learning module that begins with "The Border: A Double Sonnet" by Alberto Rios, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: The Walrus and the Carpenter

For Students 5th - 6th
A learning module that begins with "The Walrus and the Carpenter" by Lewis Carrol, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Peaches

For Students 5th - 6th
A learning module that begins with "Peaches" by Adrienne Su, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and student...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: I'm the Library Lady

For Students 5th - 6th
A learning module that begins with "I'm the Library Lady" by J. Patrick Lewis, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: We Have Been Friends Together

For Students 5th - 6th
A learning module that begins with "We Have Been Friends Together" by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Farmyard Wedding

For Students 5th - 6th
A learning module that begins with "Farmyard Wedding" by Joy Cowley, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: After Hours in Kindergarten

For Students 5th - 6th
A learning module that begins with "After Hours in Kindergarten" by Kim Roberts, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
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Website
Other

The Beloit Poetry Journal: Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th
The Beloit Poetry Journal has been publishing poetry for over 50 years. Here you have access to all fifty years of the journal, with works by many writers who have become famous.
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Other

Literary Traveler: An Encounter With William Stafford

For Students 9th - 10th
This essay on William Stafford and gives insight into some of Stafford's thoughts on life.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Faith

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with the poem "Faith" by Linda Pastan, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: New Carolina City

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with the poem "New Carolina City" by Sydney Hamilton, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Bag of Bones

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with the poem "Bag of Bones" by Dunya Mikhail, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" by Robert Herrick, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Storm Ending

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "Storm Ending" by Jean Toomer, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: A Bird, Came Down the Walk

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "A Bird, Came Down the Walk" by Emily Dickinson, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: The Ocean

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with the poem "The Ocean" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: "Burning a Book" by William Stafford

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with the poem "Burning a Book" by William Stafford, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: The Taming of the Shrew Induction 1.12

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "The Taming of the Shrew-Induction 1.12" by Gary Soto, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: "A Dream Within a Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with the poem "A Dream Within a Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Sympathy

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with the poem "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Accidents

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with the poem "Accidents" by Linda Pastan, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher...