CommonLit
Common Lit: To Those Who Keep Slaves, and Approve the Practice
A learning module that begins with "To Those Who Keep Slaves, and Approve the Practice" by Richard Allen, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or...
Read Works
Read Works: Water From the Air: Cloud Forests
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this informational text passage, facts about cloud forests are shared, along with persuasive language to stress the importance of them and threats to them. This passage is a stand-alone curricular...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: W.3.1: Write Opinion Pieces on Familiar Topics or Texts
Links to 37 lessons that focus on skills within third grade reading standard W.3.1.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Reader Response in Hypertext: Making Personal Connections
Young scholars write a narrative of place, a character sketch, an extended metaphor poem and a persuasive essay then link all four texts to quotations they have selected from a novel.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Process: Organizing
This activity focuses on the organization of your paper including how to write a thesis statement, the elements of an effective paragraph, patterns of organization, transitions, and conclusions. It also provides a video of the Toulmin...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Analyzing Famous Speeches as Arguments
This multi-session activity features the opportunity to analyze a variety of famous speeches. Learners will look carefully at tone, rhetoric, propaganda techniques, and historical context as they write an analysis paper....
CommonLit
Common Lit: Excerpts From Leviathan
A learning module that begins with "Excerpts from Leviathan" by Thomas Hobbes, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Chicago: Deval Patrick [Pdf]
"Chicago Is a City of Possibilities" is an inauguration speech by Deval Patrick given as he became governor of Massachusetts. It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes determining...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Taking a Stand
The Baka are a semi-nomadic forest people who live in the republic of Cameroon in central Africa. In this video from Africa, the Baka men meet with a government official for help to protect their forest.