Read Works
Read Works: Genre Studies: Informational Texts: Pictures and Photographs
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses All About Cats and Kittens by Emily Neye to teach students how to identify facts from photographs and pictures in informational text. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and...
Read Works
Read Works: Genre Studies: Informational Text Kindergarten Unit: Labeled Diagrams
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Bats by Gail Gibbons to teach students how to identify facts learned from labeled diagrams within an informational text. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Describe Themes in Literary Texts (English 7 Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson is about themes, the central messages in literature. Whatever their genre might be, writers have some wisdom, some universal truth or insight to share; this...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Realism: "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Harte
This lesson focuses on the short story "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Harte who uses stereotypical but realistic characters to invent the culture of the "Old West." This story is an example of Regionalism, a sbu-genre of Realism....
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Question and Answer Books From Genre Study to Report Writing
Contains plans for eight lessons that explore Question and Answer Books and ask young scholars to do research in order to write their own. In addition to objectives and standards, these instructional plans contain links to sites used in...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: What's the Big Idea? Integrating Young Adult Literature
Drawing on New York City teachers' experiences, this article examines three ways to effectively integrate young adult literature into the curriculum: use core texts (usually novels, but also other genres as well) that the entire class...
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese Real Time Data Projects: Movie in the Making
In this project students will report on a book by describing how they would turn that book into a motion picture. After reading and studying the main components of their novel, students will use their imaginations to explain how they...
Read Works
Read Works: Genre Kindergarten Unit: Tells a Story
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn that nursery rhymes tell a story and learn to retell that story in their own words. Texts are provided with free login.
Read Works
Read Works:lesson 2: Humorous Solutions Kindergarten Tell Tales
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will learn that tall tales are stories with funny solutions to a problem and how to learn unknown words.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Multiple Texts: Multiple Opportunities for Teaching and Learning
Engaging all students in a themed study or unit is a challenge that teachers can resolve by using materials that match students' independent or instructional reading levels (Robb 1994, 2000). When students face textbooks that are above...
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Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: "Washington Square" Teacher Guide [Pdf]
"Washington Square" 36-page teacher guide features in-depth background materials, genre studies, suggested themes, and elements of fiction. Also includes discussion questions, vocabulary studies, post-reading activities, and group and...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Flight: The Journey of Charles Lindbergh
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart was created to use with the story, Flight, by Robert Burleigh, in the Scott Foresman Reading Series for third grade. Students will preview and predict what the story will be about. The...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Text Sets
This is a collection of 35 Grade-Leveled text sets (4-11). They are great for social studies teachers or for building background knowledge in reading class, CommonLit's text sets cover a range of historical, cultural, and political...